conerchloí

Old Irish

Etymology

From com- +‎ ar- +‎ cloïd.

Verb

con·erchloí

1. to drive, stir up, agitate
   • 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^a14

     .i. con·irchloiter .i. mad hé á luum ut di filio dicitur agebatur a spiritu.

     (glossing Latin aguntur) i.e. are driven, i.e. if He be their pilot like how the Son is said to be driven by the Spirit.

Usage notes

This verb is only used to translate Latin ago (“to drive”) or its derivatives in the Glosses, in place of aigid or ad·aig.

Inflection

Complex, class A III present, a subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.			con·erchloí				ɔ·erchloither	con·irchloiter
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.								con·erchloatar
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative								comerchloither
verbal noun
past participle		comerchloithe
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of conerchloí

radical	lenition	nasalization
con·erchloí (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	con·n-erchloí

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), “con-erchloí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language