arreith

Old Irish

Etymology

ar- +‎ reithid

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /arˈr͈ʲeθʲ/

Verb

ar·reith (verbal noun airrecht)

  1. to capture, overtake
  2. to assail
    • 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. 6b22
      Ní latt aní ara·rethi et ní lat in cách forsa mmitter.
      What you assail is not yours, and not everyone whom you judge is yours.

Conjugation

Complex, class B I present, á preterite, s future, s subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut. ar·riuth ara·rethi (with infixed pronoun a-) ara·reith (with infixed pronoun a-) ar·rethat
prot.
imperfect indicative deut.
prot. ·aratha
preterite deut.
prot. ·arraid
perfect deut.
prot.
future deut.
prot. ·arrais
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut.
prot. ·arrais
past subjunctive deut.
prot. ·áirsed
imperative
verbal noun airrecht
past participle
verbal of necessity

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