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Old Irish
Etymology
From to- + aith- (“re-”) + crenaid (“to buy”), literally "to buy back".
Verb
do·aithchren (verbal noun taidchricc)
- to redeem
- 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. 2b9
.i. is hé-som do·radchiúir ⁊ is hé dano as taidchricc.- It is He who has redeemed, and it is He, then, who is the redemption.
- 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. 27c27
[Ind a]imser fo·rubid [tre b]ar ṅdrognímu, dchrenid tre bar [ṅgní]mu in aimsir.- The time you pl have wasted through your evil deeds, redeem through your deeds in the time .
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 125b9
Is follus romtar bibdaid-som isindí do·rathchratha.- It is clear that they had been condemned, since they had been redeemed.
Inflection
Complex, class B IV present, reduplicated preterite, a subjunctive
Mutation
Mutation of doaithchren
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lenition |
nasalization
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do·aithchren
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
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unchanged
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do·n-aithchren
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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