arcessi

Latin

Verb

arcessī

1. present passive infinitive of arcessō

Old Irish

Etymology

From ar- +‎ ces (“debility, illness”).

Verb

ar·cessi (prototonic ·airchissi, verbal noun airchissecht)

1. to pity
   • 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. 4^c19

     .i. ar·cessi do neoch bes meldach less.

     He pities whoever he pleases.

   • 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. 61^a9

     .i. air ar·rocheis-side di bochtai chaich

     since he had compassion on the poverty of all

Inflection

Complex, class A II present, s preterite, a subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.			ar·cessi
	prot.			·airchissi
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.			ar·rocheis	ara·roichsisem		ar·roichsisiot
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.			ar·cessea; ardon·roigse (ro-form with infixed pronoun don-)
	prot.			·airchissa; ·erchissea
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.			·erchissed
imperative			airchis
verbal noun		airchissecht
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of arcessi

radical	lenition	nasalization
ar·cessi	ar·chessi	ar·cessi pronounced with /-ɡ(ʲ)-/

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), “ar-ceissi”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language