arcain
See also: arcáin
Old Irish
editEtymology
editVerb
editar·cain (verbal noun airchetal)
Inflection
editComplex, class B I present, reduplicated preterite
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Present indicative | Deut. | ar·canai | ar·cain | arid·chanat (with infixed pronoun d-) | ar·canar | ar·cantar | |||
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Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
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Preterite | Deut. | ar·cachain | ara·chét | ||||||
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Perfect | Deut. | ||||||||
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Future | Deut. | ||||||||
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Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
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Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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Imperative | |||||||||
Verbal noun | airchetal | ||||||||
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Verbal of necessity |
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ar-cain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language