Latin edit

Verb edit

arcessī

  1. present passive infinitive of arcessō

Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From ar- +‎ ces (debility, illness).[1]

Verb edit

ar·cessi (prototonic ·airchissi, verbal noun airchissecht)

  1. to pity
    • 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. 4c19
      .i. ar·cessi do neoch bes meldach less.
      He pities whoever he pleases.
    • 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. 61a9
      .i. air ar·rocheis-side di bochtai chaich
      since he had compassion on the poverty of all

Inflection edit

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
ar·cessi ar·chessi ar·cessi
pronounced with /-ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ Le Mair, Esther (2011 September 30) Secondary Verbs in Old Irish: A comparative-historical study of patterns of verbal derivation in the Old Irish Glosses, Galway: National University of Ireland, page 180

Further reading edit