arcuirethar

Old Irish

Etymology

From ar- +‎ ·cuirethar. However, the related noun airchor is more often attested to mean a literal throwing sense instead of the extension sense of the verb.

Verb

ar·cuirethar

1. to extend
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 6^b17

     .i. ar ní biat i n-anmanaib Laitindib ⁊ ní·erchuiretar lín liter Laitinde iarum.

     i.e. since [Y and Z] are not in Latin [words], and so they do not increase the number of Latin letters.

Inflection

Complex, class A II present, a subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.	ar·chuiriur		ar·cuirethar
	prot.						·erchuiretar
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.							·urcorathar
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun
past participle
verbal of necessity

Related terms

• airchor

Further reading

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