docer

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- + Proto-Celtic *kerat (“to fall”) (hence the exceptional non-palatalized /r/), from the root aorist of Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“to break”); cognate with Sanskrit शृणाति (śṛṇā́ti, “to crush”) and Ancient Greek κεραΐζω (keraḯzō, “to ravage, plunder”).^[1]^[2]

Verb

do·cer

third-person singular preterite deuterotonic of do·tuit (“to fall”)

Mutation

Mutation of *do·cer*
radical	lenition	nasalization
do·cer	do·cher	do·cer pronounced with /ɡʲ-/

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

References

^ Schumacher, Stefan; Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004), “Urkelt. Wurzelaorist *-kera- ‘fiel’”, in Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Meid, →ISBN, page 399f.
^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*kerV-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 202

[1] Schumacher, Stefan; Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004), “Urkelt. Wurzelaorist *-kera- ‘fiel’”, in Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Meid, →ISBN, page 399f.

[2] Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*kerV-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 202

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