roicc

See also: ROICC

Old Irish

Etymology

ro- +‎ ·icc

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [r͈oˈhiɡʲ]

Verb

ro·icc (prototonic ·ricc, verbal noun ríchtu)

1. to reach (a place), to arrive

   Synonym: ro·saig

   • 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. 28^c9

     Fo·mentar mo rígtin-se; mos riccub-sa.

     May you take heed of my arrival; I shall arrive soon.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, f future, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.	ro·iccu, ru·icim					ro·eccat	ro·ecar
	Prot.	·riccu, ·riccim	·rrici	·ricc	·recam		·recat	·recar
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.			rob·ánic (with infixed pronoun b-)
	Prot.	·ránac		·ránic			·ráncatar	·rícht
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Deut.	ro·icub		ro·icfea
	Prot.	·riccub						·ricfider
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.		ro·is	ro·í, ro·hí	ro·issam
	Prot.	·rís	·rís	·rí	·rísam	·risid	·rísat
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.	·rísinn		·rísed			·rístais
Imperative
Verbal noun		ríchtu
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• co rricci
• ro·icc less

Descendants

• Irish: righ
• Manx: raink (suppletive past stem of rosh)
• Scottish Gaelic: ruig

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ro·icc (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	ro·n-icc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “roicc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 752.3, pages 555–556