arcuirethar
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]ar·cuirethar
- 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. 6b17
- .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.
- 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. 6b17
Inflection
[edit]Complex, class A II present, a subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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| Present indicative | Deut. | ar·chuiriur | ar·cuirethar | ||||||
| Prot. | ·erchuiretar | ||||||||
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
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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. | ||||||||
| Prot. | ·urcorathar | ||||||||
| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ar-cuirethar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language