etercerta
Appearance
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]eter·certa (prototonic ·etarcerta, verbal noun etercert)
- to interpret, explain
- 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. 12c32
- Acht nammáa is samlid is torbe són, co eter·certa a n‑as·bera et con·rucca i n‑ætarcne cáich.
- But it is only thus that this is a profit, that he may interpret what he says and bring it into everyone’s understanding.
- 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. 12c32
Conjugation
[edit]Complex, class A I 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. | eter·certar | |||||||
Prot. | ·etarcerta | ||||||||
Imperfect indicative | Deut. | etar·chertath | |||||||
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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. | eter·certa | |||||||
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Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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Imperative | etarcertar | ||||||||
Verbal noun | etercert | ||||||||
Past participle | |||||||||
Verbal of necessity |
Alternative forms
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “eter·certa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
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eter·certa | eter·cherta | eter·certa 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.