arachrin

Old Irish

Etymology

Originally a euphemism or slang expression meaning “shake it”, from Proto-Celtic *ɸarekriniti (compare Welsh ergryn (“tremble, fear”)) with the infixed pronoun a- (“it”), from *ɸare- (“in front”) +‎ *kriniti (“to shake, sift”), from Proto-Indo-European *krinéh₁ti (“to shake, sift”), from Proto-Indo-European *kreh₁(y)-. Cognate with Welsh crynu (“to shake, shiver”), Latin cernō (“to sift, separate”), and Ancient Greek κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “to separate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [araˈxʲrʲinʲ]

Verb

ara·chrin (verbal noun irchre or erchrae)

1. to perish
2. to wear out (deteriorate or become unusable or ineffective due to continued use, exposure, or strain), to decay
3. to fail (be wanting; fall short)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:arachrin.

Conjugation

Complex, class B V present, reduplicated preterite, i future, a subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.	ara·chrinim		ara·chrin; arind·chrin (relative)			ara·chrinat; arin·chrinat (relative)
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.			ara·ruichíuir
	prot.			·arrchíuir			·arrceoratar
future	deut.						ara·chíurat
	prot.			·airchíuri
conditional	deut.			ara·chíurad
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.						·archriat
past subjunctive	deut.						arind·rochrietis (relative ro-form)
	prot.			·archriad
imperative
verbal noun		irchre, erchrae
past participle
verbal of necessity

Synonyms

• at·baill
• baïd

Descendants

• ⇒ Middle Irish: airchranaid, airchraid, airchradaid
  • Irish: orchraigh

Further reading

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