arrae
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- arre
- arra (late manuscripts)
Etymology
From ar- + the root of renaid (“to exchange”).
Noun
arrae n
- payment, exchange, barter
- commutation of a penance
- The Old Irish Table of Penitential Commutations, published in Ériu 19 (1962, Royal Irish Academy), pp. 47-72, edited and with translations by D. A. Binchy, §12
- Arrae throiscti hi mminpectu choitcend .i. "Ałł ałł manus tuas dne..." usque "...veritatis", Pr. Nr. co forcend. Canar in sin hi crosfigill fo trichait ⁊ trichait slechtan ⁊ trichae mbemmend du abuind inna degad dide.
- Commutation of a fast for ordinary minor sins: Alleluia, alleluia, in manus tuas Domine... as far as veritatis and a full Pater Noster. This is sung thirty times in cross-vigil, and [during the] thirty genuflexions and thirty blows with a scourge afterwards.
- The Old Irish Table of Penitential Commutations, published in Ériu 19 (1962, Royal Irish Academy), pp. 47-72, edited and with translations by D. A. Binchy, §12
Inflection
| Neuter io-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | arrae | arraeL | arraeL |
| Vocative | arrai | arraeL | arraeL |
| Accusative | arrae | arraeL | arraeL |
| Genitive | arraiL | arraeL | arraeN |
| Dative | arruL | arraib | arraib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| arrae | unchanged | n-arrae |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “arrae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language