aricc

Old Irish

Etymology 1

ar- +‎ ·icc

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [arˈiɡʲ]

Verb

ar·icc (prototonic ·airicc, verbal noun airec)

1. to find, to come upon
   • 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. 209^b13

     Iss ed inso nád chumaing ara·n-ísar and, coní enggnatar gníma, acht asa·gnintar.

     This is what cannot be found there, that actions are not understood, but they are understood.

     (literally, “what cannot that it may be found there”)

2. to meet

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, f future, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.							ar·ecar	ara·n-ecatar (with infixed pronoun a-)
	Prot.			·aric, ·airic, ·aricc, ·airicc				·airecar
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.			ara·ánic (with infixed pronoun a-)				ar·ícht
	Prot.			·airnic			·airnechtar	·airecht
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.			ar·í				ara·n-ísar (with infixed pronoun a-)
	Prot.			·airi
Past subjunctive	Deut.							ar·ísta, ar·ístae
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun		airec
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Middle Irish: aircid, airicid

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aricc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 552

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈarʲiɡʲ]

Verb

·aricc

1. Alternative spelling of ·airicc

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ar·icc (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	ar·n-icc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.