etercerta

Old Irish

Etymology

etar- +‎ certaid

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /edʲerˈkʲerta/

Verb

eter·certa (prototonic ·etarcerta, verbal noun etercert)

1. to interpret, explain
   • 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^c32

     Acht nammáa is samlid is torbe són, co eter·certa a n‑as·bera et con·rucca i n‑ætarcne cáich.

     But it is only thus that this is a profit, that he may interpret what he says and bring it into everyone’s understanding.

Conjugation

Complex, class A I present, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.							eter·certar
	Prot.			·etarcerta
Imperfect indicative	Deut.			etar·chertath
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.			eter·certa
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative				etarcertar
Verbal noun		etercert
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Alternative forms

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

Mutation

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