Old Irish

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Etymology

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From com- +‎ ar- +‎ cloïd.

Verb

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con·erchloí

  1. to drive, stir up, agitate
    • 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. 4a14
      .i. con·irchloiter .i. mad hé á luum ut di filio dicitur agebatur a spiritu.
      (glossing Latin aguntur) i.e. are driven, i.e. if He be their pilot like how the Son is said to be driven by the Spirit.

Usage notes

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This verb is only used to translate Latin ago (to drive) or its derivatives in the Glosses, in place of aigid or ad·aig.

Inflection

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Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
con·erchloí unchanged con·n-erchloí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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