reicc

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• reic

Noun

reicc f

1. verbal noun of renaid: sale, selling
   • c. 760 Blathmac mac Con Brettan, published in "A study of the lexicon of the poems of Blathmac Son of Cú Brettan" (2017; PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth), edited and with translations by Siobhán Barrett, stanza 108

     Reic Críst, ba droch-cundrad sé
     Arin tríchait n-airgdide.

     Selling [out] Christ, that was a bad bargain
     For thirty pieces of silver.

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	reiccL	—	—
Vocative	reiccL	—	—
Accusative	reiccN	—	—
Genitive	reicceH	—	—
Dative	reiccL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: reicc
  • Irish: reic
  • Scottish Gaelic: reic

Mutation

Mutation of reicc

radical	lenition	nasalization
reicc also rreicc after a proclitic ending in a vowel	reicc pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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 reic(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language