frisaccai

Old Irish

Etymology

From frith- +‎ ad·cí.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɸʲrʲisˈakɨ]

Verb

fris·accai (prototonic ·frescai, verbal noun frescisiu)

1. to expect

   Synonym: ar·neät

   • 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. 69^b3

     .i. amal nad·frescat bás inna cethrai ní·bí dano cida frescisiu in baís etir lasna doini so··

     i.e. as the cattle do not expect death, there is moreover not even an expectation of death at all with these men.

2. to hope for, look forward to

   Synonym: saílid

   • 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. 124^a2

     .i. co-fris·accat ón dilgud doib amal du·rolged dia n-aithrib

     i.e. that is, so that they hope for forgiveness to them, as it had been forgiven to their fathers.

Inflection

Complex, class A III present, reduplicated preterite, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.	fris·aiccim	fris·aiccai	fris·accai			fris·accat
	Prot.	·frescu		·frescai			·frescat
Imperfect indicative	Deut.						fris·aiccitis
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.			·frescachae
Perfect	Deut.	fris·racacha					frit·racatar (with infixed pronoun d-)
	Prot.						·frescachtar; ·frescisset
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.	fris·accar		fris·aiccidar		fris·aiccid	fris·accat, fris·accatar
	Prot.		·frescai
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.			·fresced
Imperative
Verbal noun		frescisiu
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of frisaccai

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

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “frisaccai”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language