Old Irish edit

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

reicc f

  1. verbal noun of renaid: sale, selling
    • c. 760 Blathmac mac Con Brettan, published in "A study of the lexicon of the poems of Blathmac Son of Cú Brettan" (2017; PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth), edited and with translations by Siobhán Barrett, stanza 108
      Reic Críst, ba droch-cundrad sé
      Arin tríchait n-airgdide.
      Selling [out] Christ, that was a bad bargain
      For thirty pieces of silver.

Inflection edit

Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative reiccL
Vocative reiccL
Accusative reiccN
Genitive reicceH
Dative reiccL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants edit

  • Middle Irish: reicc

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
reicc
also rreicc after a proclitic
reicc
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 edit