arreith
Old Irish
Etymology
ar- + reithid
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /arˈr͈ʲeθʲ/
Verb
ar·reith (verbal noun airrecht)
- to capture, overtake
- to assail
- 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. 6b22
- Ní latt aní ara·rethi et ní lat in cách forsa mmitter.
- What you assail is not yours, and not everyone whom you judge is yours.
- 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. 6b22
Conjugation
Complex, class B I present, suffixless preterite, s future, s subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Deut. | ar·riuth | ara·rethi (with infixed pronoun a-) | ara·reith (with infixed pronoun a-) | ar·rethat | ||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | ·aratha | ||||||||
| Preterite | Deut. | ar·roírachair, ar·róerachair | |||||||
| Prot. | ·arraid | ||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | ·arrais | ||||||||
| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | ·arrais | ||||||||
| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | ·áirsed | ||||||||
| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | airrecht | ||||||||
| Past participle | |||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Further reading
- “ar·reith” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.