Old Irish

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Etymology

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From frith- +‎ ad·cí.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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fris·accai (prototonic ·frescai, verbal noun frescisiu)

  1. to expect
    Synonym: ar·neät
    • 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. 69b3
      .i. amal nad·frescat bás inna cethrai ní·bí dano cida frescisiu in baís etir lasna doini so··
      i.e. as the cattle do not expect death, there is moreover not even an expectation of death at all with these men.
  2. to hope for, look forward to
    Synonym: saílid
    • 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. 124a2
      .i. co-fris·accat ón dilgud doib amal du·rolged dia n-aithrib
      i.e. that is, so that they hope for forgiveness to them, as it had been forgiven to their fathers.

Inflection

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Mutation

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

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