droch

• 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

• drochet (“bridge”)

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 droch ‘bad’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, 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)

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.