rechtaire

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Old Irish

Noun

rechtaire m (nominative plural rechtairi)

administrator, steward, bailiff
- 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. 17^d13a
  rectire ind ríg Arathæ
  the steward of King Aretas
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 156^b1
  .i. uandi as vilicus .i. rechtaire
  i.e. from vilicus (“steward”)
- c. 700, Críth Gablach, published in Críth Gablach (1941, Dublin: Stationery Office), edited by Daniel Anthony Binchy, §33, line 484
  Rechtairi, techtairi, fo·longtar leth-folug a flaithe.
  Administrators and envoys are maintained at half the sick-maintenance of their lords.

Inflection

Masculine io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	rechtaire	rechtaire^L	rechtairi^L
Vocative	rechtairi	rechtaire^L	rechtairiu
Accusative	rechtaire^N	rechtaire^L	rechtairiu^H
Genitive	rechtairi^L	rechtaire^L	rechtaire^N
Dative	rechtairiu^L	rechtairib	rechtairib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of *rechtaire*
radical	lenition	nasalization
rechtaire also rrechtaire after a proclitic ending in a vowel	rechtaire pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “rechtaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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