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. 6^b22

     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

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ar·reith”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language