airchellad

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• erchellad

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈarʲxʲəl͈əð/, [ˈarʲxʲel͈að]

Noun

airchellad m

1. verbal noun of ar·cela: taking away, deprivation, theft, robbery, plundering, fraud
   • 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. 38^a13

     hó erchellad· ꝉ. hó mí-imbirt .i. hó thogaís .i. ním·thorgaíth mo ḟrescissiu

     by deprivation or by fraud i.e. by deceit i.e. my expectation has not deceived me

   • 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. 90^a11

     .i. condid étrummu dæ ón in bochtae bís tri airchellad donaib sommaib a n-anae airnaib bochtaib tri frescissin messa firiein ind ríg doib iarum.

     That is, so that the poverty, which is a result of the rich taking their riches from the poor, is lighter through the expectation by them of the just judgment of the king afterwards.

Inflection

Masculine u-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	airchellad	—	—
vocative	airchellad	—	—
accusative	airchelladN	—	—
genitive	aircheltoH, aircheltaH	—	—
dative	airchelladL	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of airchellad

radical	lenition	nasalization
airchellad (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-airchellad

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airchellad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language