droch-

From Old Irish droch (“bad”),^[1] from Proto-Celtic *drukos. Cognates include Welsh drwg, Breton drog, Scottish Gaelic droch.

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɾˠʌh/^[2]
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɾˠɔx/^[3]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɾˠʌx/

droch-

1. bad
2. ill-, mal-

• In Irish, this affix acts both as an adjectival prefix (creating adjectives) and as an adjectival (modifying nouns). It lenites the word to which it attaches:

• ‎droch- + ‎duine (“person”) → ‎drochdhuine (“bad person”)
• ‎droch- + ‎focal (“word”) → ‎drochfhocal (“bad word”)

It is written without a hyphen except for words beginning with ch:

• ‎droch- + ‎croí (“heart”) → ‎droch-chroí (“weak heart; evil disposition, ill will”)
• ‎droch- + ‎cumann (“friendship, love; companionship, company”) → ‎droch-chumann (“bad companionship, evil association, illicit love”)

• dona
• olc

• deas
• maith

• do-
• mí-
• ró-

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “droch-”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN