ríchtu

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r͈ʲiːx.tu/

Noun

ríchtu f (genitive ríchtan)

1. verbal noun of ro·icc: reaching, arrival
   • 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. 7^a3

     Is cían ós accobor lemm far ríchtu.

     I have long had a desire to come unto you.

   • 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. 28^c9

     Fo·mentar mo rígtin-se; mos riccub-sa.

     May you take heed of my arrival; I shall arrive soon.

   • 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. 105^a8

     Ar·fema .i. du·fórmastar cech fechtnaige for araili doib iar ríchtin tire tairngeri.

     It will receive, i.e. each prosperity will be added upon another to them after reaching the Land of Promise.

Inflection

Feminine n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ríchtu	—	—
Vocative	ríchtu	—	—
Accusative	ríchtinN, rígtin	—	—
Genitive	ríchtan	—	—
Dative	ríchtinL, ríchtuL, rígtin	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ríchtu also rríchtu after a proclitic	ríchtu pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ríchtu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language