Old Irish

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Etymology

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From ar- +‎ gairid.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ar·gair (verbal noun irgaire, ergaire)

  1. to forbid
    • 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. 69a21
      Co n-epred, “Du·gén a nnoíb sa ⁊ ní digén ⟨a n-⟩ærgarthae se, cid accubur lium”; ní eper insin.
      So that he should say, “I will do this holy thing and I will not do this forbidden thing, though it is a desire of mine”; he does not say that.
  2. to herd
  3. (rare) to call

Usage notes

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The sense call occurs only once: the form ar·gart may be a scribal error for do·gart, which is the usual word for call.

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Irish: urghair

Mutation

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

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