rechtaire

Old Irish

Noun

rechtaire m (nominative plural rechtairi)

1. administrator, steward, bailiff
   • 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. 17^d13a

     rectire ind ríg Arathæ

     the steward of King Aretas

   • 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. 156^b1

     .i. uandi as vilicus .i. rechtaire

     i.e. from vilicus (“steward”)

   • c. 700, Críth Gablach, published in Críth Gablach (1941, Dublin: Stationery Office), edited by Daniel Anthony Binchy, §33, line 484

     Rechtairi, techtairi, fo·longtar leth-folug a flaithe.

     Administrators and envoys are maintained at half the sick-maintenance of their lords.

Inflection

Masculine io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	rechtaire	rechtaireL	rechtairiL
Vocative	rechtairi	rechtaireL	rechtairiu
Accusative	rechtaireN	rechtaireL	rechtairiuH
Genitive	rechtairiL	rechtaireL	rechtaireN
Dative	rechtairiuL	rechtairib	rechtairib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
rechtaire also rrechtaire after a proclitic ending in a vowel	rechtaire 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

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