dúchas

See also: duchas and duchás

Irish
FWOTD – 20 December 2015

Alternative forms
  • dúthchas (superseded)

Etymology

From Old Irish dúthchas (compare Scottish Gaelic dùthchas, Manx dooghys).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈd̪ˠuːxəsˠ/

Noun

dúchas m (genitive singular dúchais)

  1. hereditary right or claim; birthright, heritage; ancestral estate, patrimony
  2. native place or country, ancestral home; traditional connection
  3. kindred affection, natural affinity
  4. heredity, innate quality, natural bent
  5. natural, wild, state; wildness, madness

Declension
Declension of dúchas

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative dúchas
Vocative a dhúchais
Genitive dúchais
Dative dúchas

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an dúchas
Genitive an dúchais
Dative leis an dúchas

don dúchas

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • dúchasach m (“hereditary proprietor; hereditary head (of community); hereditary follower; native, inhabitant”)
  • dúchasach (“hereditary, ancestral; inherited, inherent; innate, instinctive; native, indigenous; inheritable”, adjective)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
dúchas dhúchas ndúchas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • "dúchas" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “dúṫċas” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
  • “dúthchas” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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