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OF THE GAELIC LANGUAGE.
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place in flowing or standing water. Hence dobharchu ("water-dog") and dobhran, the otter.
docair, grievous, hard, trouble, E. Ir. doccair, uneasiness, trouble.
docha, preferable, is docha, prefer; see toigh.
dòcha, more likely, Ir. dócha, O. Ir. dochu; comparative of dóigh, O. Ir. dóig, likely, *dougi-, *douki-; Gr. δεúκει, thinks, ἀδευκής, unseemly; Ger. zeuge, witness; further allied is Lat. dûco. Connection with Gr. δοκέω has been suggested, and Zimmer has analysed it into *do-ech, *do-sech, root sec, say (as in casg, etc.: Cam.), citing the by-form toich (G. toigh), which is a different word. Hence dòchas, dòigh.
dochair, dochar, hurt, damage, so Ir., E. Ir. dochor; from do- and cor-, i.e., cor, state: dochar, "bad state". See cor, sochair. Hence dochartach, sick.
dochann, injury, hurt, M. Ir. dochond, ill-fortune, O. Ir. conaichi, felicior, from *cuno-, high, root ku (as in curaidh)?
dòchas, hope, Ir. cóchas, M. Ir. dóchus; see dòcha.
docran, anguish (Sh., Arm.; not H.S.D.); cf. docrach, hard, from docair.
dod, a tantrum, fret, Ir. sdoid (n.), sdodach (adj.), dóiddeach, quarrelsome (Con.). Cf. Sc. dod.
dòdum, a teetotum (Dialectic); from the Eng.
dog, a bit; from the Eng. dock.
dogadh, mischief (Sh.), O. Ir. dodcad (Str.).
dogail, cynical, doganta, fierce; from the Eng. dog.
dògan, a sort of oath (Dialectic, M'L.); Sc. daggand, Eng. doggonit, Amer. doggond.
dogha, a burdock, Ir. meacan dogha; Eng. dock, Ag. S. docce.
doibhear, rude, uncivil, so Ir. (Lh., which H.S.D. quotes, O'B., etc.): "ill-bearing"; from do- and beus.
doicheall, churlishness, Ir. doicheall, g. doichle; E. Ir. dochell, grudging, inhospitality: opposed to E. Ir. sochell, meaning "kindness", soichlech. Root is that of timchioll. Gaul. Sucellos, a god's name.
dòid, the hand, grasp, Ir. dóid, E. Ir. dóit, O. Ir. inna n-doat, lacertorum, *dousenti-; Skr dos (*daus), doshan, fore-arm, Zend daosha, shoulder. Strachan, who cites the meanings "hand, wrist", suggests a stem *doventi-, from I. E. dheva (move violently), comparing Gr. καρπός, wrist, from qṛp, turn. Hence dòideach, muscular.
dòid, a small farm: "a holding"; from dòid, hand. Cf. dòideach, firmly grasping.
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