adeirrig

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

The prefixes are either aith- + ar- or aith- + ess-. The root was formerly believed to be Proto-Celtic *regeti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-. Nowadays however an unrelated verb *reketi is instead reconstructed as the root of ad·eirrig,[1] in consideration of Brythonic relatives like Cornish edrek (regret).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aðˈer͈ʲəɣʲ/

Verb

ad·eirrig (prototonic ·aithirrig, verbal noun aithirge or aitherrach)

  1. to repeat
  2. to improve
  3. to repent
  4. to bring to repentance

For quotations using this term, see Citations:adeirrig.

Conjugation

  • Note: The present and past subjunctive are identical to the future and conditional, respectively.

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: aithrigid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
ad·eirrig unchanged ad·n-eirrig
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*rek-o”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 308
  2. Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) “-rech-”, in Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, §3.1.96, page 276

Further reading

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