frecndairc

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From frith- +‎ com- + Proto-Celtic *derk- (to see) (whence ad·condairc), from Proto-Indo-European *derḱ-.

Pronunciation

Adjective

frecndairc

  1. present (pertaining to the current time)
  2. present (in the immediate vicinity)
    • 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. 4a27
      I⟨s⟩ samlid trá is lobur ar n-irnigde-ni, mat réte frecndirci gesme, et nín·fortéit-ni in spirut oc suidiu.
      Thus then our way of praying is feeble if present things are what we ask for, and the spirit does not help us with this.
    • 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. 9b4
      amal nonda frecṅdircc-sa
      as I am present

Declension

i-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative frecndairc frecndairc frecndairc
Vocative frecndairc
Accusative frecndairc frecndairc
Genitive frecndairc frecndairce frecndairc
Dative frecndairc frecndairc frecndairc
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative frecndairci frecndairci
Vocative frecndairci
Accusative frecndairci
Genitive frecndairc*
frecndairce
Dative frecndaircib
Notes *not when substantivized

Descendants

  • Irish: freacnairc

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
frecndairc ḟrecndairc frecndairc
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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