ancretmech

Old Irish

Etymology

From an- (“un-”) +‎ cretmech (“believing”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈanˌkʲrʲedʲβ̃ʲex]

Adjective

ancretmech

1. unbelieving
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10^a5

     Mainip in chrud so bid anglan for cland, .i. a lliles dind ancretmiuch bid ancretmech.

     Unless it is in this way, your children will be unclean, i.e. whatever follows the unbelieving will be unbelieving.

Declension

o/ā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ancretmech	ancretmech	ancretmech
Vocative	ancretmig* ancretmech**
Accusative	ancretmech	ancretmig
Genitive	ancretmig	ancretmige	ancretmig
Dative	ancretmiuch	ancretmig	ancretmiuch
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	ancretmig	ancretmecha
Vocative	ancretmechu ancretmecha†
Accusative	ancretmechu ancretmecha†
Genitive	ancretmech
Dative	ancretmechaib
Notes	*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative † not when substantivized

Descendants

• Irish: ainchreidmheach

Mutation

Mutation of ancretmech

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

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), “ainc(h)reitmech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language