airdircus

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• aurdarcus, irdurcus

Etymology

From airdirc +‎ -us, from Proto-Celtic *ɸare- (“in front of”) + *derk- (“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *derḱ-.

Pronunciation

• (earlier) IPA^(key): /ˈar͈ðʲərkus/
• (later) IPA^(key): /ˈar͈ɣʲərkəs/

Noun

airdircus m

1. fame, renown
   • c. 1000, “The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig”, in Ernst Windisch, editor, Irische Texte, volume 1, published 1800, section 1:

     Ailbe ainm in chon, ocus lan hEriu dia aurdarcus.

     Ailbhe was the dog’s name, and Ireland was full of his fame.

Descendants

• Irish: oirirceas

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
airdircus	unchanged	n-airdircus
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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