esorcon

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• essarcon (Würzburg glosses)

Etymology

From ess- +‎ orcun.

Noun

esorcon f (genitive esoircne, nominative plural esaircnea)

1. verbal noun of as·oirc
   1. smiting, beating
      • 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. 12^d3

        i. bid essarcon aiéir dúib arni·tucfa nech a n-as·berith.

        i.e. it will be a beating of the air by you, for no one will understand what ye will say.

      • 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. 131^b12

        .i. corrobu bec du essarcnaib fo·rodama[i]r.

        i.e. so that it was few blows that it has endured.

   2. destruction
      • 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. 33^a3

        airindí a·treba aesorcuin

        because he possesses destruction [Glossator is connecting Latin Caesar with caedo (“to strike, beat, kill, defeat”)]

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	esorconL	esorcuinL	esaircneaH
Vocative	esorconL	esorcuinL	esaircneaH
Accusative	esorcuinN	esorcuinL	esaircneaH
Genitive	esoircneH	esorconL	esorconN
Dative	esorcuinL	esaircnib, essarcnaib	esaircnib, essarcnaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
esorcun (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-esorcun
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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