frecor

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɸʲrʲe.ɡur]

Noun

frecor m (genitive frecuir or frecoir)

1. verbal noun of fris·cuirethar: worship, cultivation
   • 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. 35^a11

     recht frecoir chéill cruithnechtae

     the law of cultivating wheat

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 22^a4

     In loc diambu thabarthi ermitiu feid ⁊ imbu chóir frecur céil Dǽ, at·léntais-[s]om adi ⁊ do·gnitis cech ndochrud and.

     The place to which honor should have been given and in which the worship of God was fitting, they polluted it and did every unseemly thing in it.

   • 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. 11^b5

     Is sí tra temptatio homana as·rubart túas: freccor céil ídol et accobor á túare.

     This, then, is the temptation of humanity mentioned above: the worship of idols and the desire for their food.

2. objection
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 131^a8

     .i. airrobad frecorp [leg. frecor] aithirrech forsa n-óin-aimn [leg. ainm] beos.

     i.e. as further repetition of the same name would be objectionable.

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	frecor	frecorL	frecuirL
Vocative	frecuir	frecorL	frecruH
Accusative	frecorN	frecorL	frecruH
Genitive	frecuirL	frecor	frecorN
Dative	frecorL	frecraib	frecraib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of frecor

radical	lenition	nasalization
frecor	ḟrecor	frecor 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), “frecor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language