Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From ar- +‎ ·cuirethar. However, the related noun airchor is more often attested to mean a literal throwing sense instead of the extension sense of the verb.

Verb edit

ar·cuirethar

  1. to extend
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 6b17
      .i. ar ní biat i n-anmanaib Laitindib ⁊ ní·erchuiretar lín liter Laitinde iarum.
      i.e. since [Y and Z] are not in Latin [words], and so they do not increase the number of Latin letters.

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