See also: ROICC

Old Irish

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Etymology

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ro- +‎ ·icc

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ro·icc (prototonic ·ricc, verbal noun ríchtu)

  1. to reach (a place), to arrive
    Synonym: ro·saig
    • 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. 28c9
      Fo·mentar mo rígtin-se; mos riccub-sa.
      May you take heed of my arrival; I shall arrive soon.

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Irish: righ
  • Manx: raink (suppletive past stem of rosh)
  • Scottish Gaelic: ruig

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
ro·icc
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged ro·n-icc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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