docing

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ cingid (“to step”).

Verb

do·cing (verbal noun tochim)

1. to advance, stride forward
   • c. 775, “Táin Bó Fraích”, in Book of Leinster; republished as Ernst Windisch, editor, Táin bó Fraích, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1974, line 115:

     "A mbiad, tucaid isa tech." Do·cing Lóthur for lár in taige.

     [Fróech says] "The food, bring it into the house." Lóthar steps onto the floor of the house [to bring in the food].

   • c. 9th century, Immacallam in dá Thuarad, published in "The Colloquy of the Two Sages", Revue Celtique 26 (1905), pages 4-64, edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes, §265

     La díbad in domuin, do·cichset i mbéolu brátha.

     At the end [perishing, Stokes] of the world, they will go [on] into the presence of the Judgement.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, s future

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.			do·cing
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	deut.						do·cichset
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun		tochim, toichim
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of do·cing

radical	lenition	nasalization
do·cing	do·ching	do·cing pronounced with /ɡʲ-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do-cing”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language