droch

From Middle High German troc, from Old High German trog, from Proto-West Germanic *trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugaz.

Akin to German Trog, Dutch trog, English trough, Danish trug, Swedish tråg.

droch m (plural droc)

1. (Gherdëina, Badiot) fountain, trough (narrow container for animals (and people) to drink from)

   Bever pra droch. ― To drink from the trough.

   droch dal bestiam ― drinking trough for the cattle

The word droch refers to a water trough, thus a long container mainly intended as a water source for cattle and for passers-by. A fountain in a town center that does not have the shape of a trough is usually referred to as funtana.

• festil, brenz (Fascian)

• IPA^(key): /drox/

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

droch

1. bad, evil
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 134^d3

     Ɔ·riris-siu .i. ar·troídfe{a}-siu inna droch daíni, a Dǽ, dia n-anduch, air is fechtnach a n-andach mani erthroítar húa Día.

     You will bind, i.e. you will restrain the evil men, O God, from their iniquity, for their iniquity is prosperous if they are not restrained by God.

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 217^a

     Memmbrum naue, droch dub! Ó, ní epur na haill.

     New parchment, bad ink! Oh, I say nothing more.

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

• Irish: droch-, droch
• Manx: drogh
• Scottish Gaelic: droch

From Proto-Celtic *drokos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-. Cognate with Ancient Greek τρέχω (trékhō, “I run”), τροχός (trokhós, “wheel, grindstone”), Breton troc'h (“cut”).

droch m (genitive unattested)

1. wheel

   Synonym: roth

2. circlet

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	droch	drochL	*droichL
Vocative	*droich	drochL	drochuH
Accusative	drochN	drochL	drochuH
Genitive	*droichL	droch	drochN
Dative	drochL	drochaib	drochaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

• drochet (“bridge”)

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
droch	droch pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndroch
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 droch ‘bad’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 droch ‘wheel’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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

droch (comparative miosa, qualitative noun miosad)

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

• IPA^(key): /droːχ/

droch

1. Soft mutation of troch.