droch

• IPA^(key): /drox/

From Proto-Celtic *drukos (compare Welsh drwg).

droch

1. bad

Forms a compound with a following down and is thus never inflected on its own.

From Proto-Celtic *drokos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-.

droch m

1. wheel

   Synonym: roth

2. circlet

• drochet (“bridge”)

• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “1 droch ‘bad’”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “2 droch ‘wheel’”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN

From Old Irish droch (“bad”), from Proto-Celtic *drukos.

droch (comparative miosa)

1. bad

• Unlike the majority of Scottish Gaelic adjectives, droch precedes the noun and lenites it.
• Cannot be used on its own (without a noun).
• Often prefixed to words to indicate a malignant subject, similarly to English ill-, as seen in Derived terms below.

• dona
• olc