frecndairc
Old Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom frith- + com- + Proto-Celtic *derk- (“to see”) (whence ad·condairc), from Proto-Indo-European *derḱ-.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editfrecndairc
- present (pertaining to the current time)
- present (in the immediate vicinity)
- 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. 4a27
- I⟨s⟩ samlid trá is lobur ar n-irnigde-ni, mat réte frecndirci gesme, et nín·fortéit-ni in spirut oc suidiu.
- Thus then our way of praying is feeble if present things are what we ask for, and the spirit does not help us with this.
- 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. 9b4
- amal nonda frecṅdircc-sa
- as I am present
- 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. 4a27
Declension
editi-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | frecndairc | frecndairc | frecndairc |
Vocative | frecndairc | ||
Accusative | frecndairc | frecndairc | |
Genitive | frecndairc | frecndairce | frecndairc |
Dative | frecndairc | frecndairc | frecndairc |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
Nominative | frecndairci | frecndairci | |
Vocative | frecndairci | ||
Accusative | frecndairci | ||
Genitive | frecndairc* frecndairce | ||
Dative | frecndaircib | ||
Notes | *not when substantivized |
Descendants
edit- Irish: freacnairc
Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
frecndairc | ḟrecndairc | frecndairc pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 frecnairc, frecndairc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language