frecndairc

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• frecdairc, frecndaircc, frecndirc, frecndircc, frecnarc

Etymology

From frith- +‎ com- + Proto-Celtic *derk- (“to see”) (whence ad·condairc), from Proto-Indo-European *derḱ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɸʲrʲekn͈dɨrʲkʲ]

Adjective

frecndairc

1. present (pertaining to the current time)
2. present (in the immediate vicinity)
   • 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^a27

     I⟨s⟩ samlid trá is lobur ar n-irnigde-ni, mat réte frecndirci gesme, et nín·fortéit-ni in spirut oc suidiu.

     Thus then our way of praying is feeble if present things are what we ask for, and the spirit does not help us with this.

   • 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. 9^b4

     amal nonda frecṅdircc-sa

     as I am present

Declension

i-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	frecndairc	frecndairc	frecndairc
Vocative	frecndairc
Accusative	frecndairc	frecndairc
Genitive	frecndairc	frecndairce	frecndairc
Dative	frecndairc	frecndairc	frecndairc
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	frecndairci	frecndairci
Vocative	frecndairci
Accusative	frecndairci
Genitive	frecndairc* frecndairce
Dative	frecndaircib
Notes	*not when substantivized

Descendants

• Irish: freacnairc

Mutation

Mutation of frecndairc

radical	lenition	nasalization
frecndairc	ḟrecndairc	frecndairc pronounced with /β(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), “1 frecnairc, frecndairc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language