arcain
See also: arcáin
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]ar·cain (verbal noun airchetal)
Inflection
[edit]Complex, class B I present, reduplicated preterite
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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| Present indicative | Deut. | ar·canai | ar·cain | arid·chanat (with infixed pronoun d-) | ar·canar | ar·cantar | |||
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| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Preterite | Deut. | ar·cachain | ara·chét | ||||||
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| Perfect | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Verbal noun | airchetal | ||||||||
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| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ar-cain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language