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Old Irish
Etymology
From ess- + renaid.
Pronunciation
Verb
as·ren (prototonic ·eren, verbal noun éra or éraicc)
- to pay
- to give
- to expend
- 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. 18a14
As·ririu-sa mo chumang dar far cenn.- I will expend my power on your pl behalf.
- to repay, pay off
- 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. 25b6
As·riri Día dígail dar⟨a n-⟩ési.- God will repay punishment for them.
Inflection
Complex, class B IV present, reduplicated preterite, i future, a subjunctive
Descendants
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “asren”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 597