friscuirethar

Old Irish

Etymology

frith- +‎ ·cuirethar, the prototonic of fo·ceird.

Verb

fris·cuirethar (verbal noun frecor)

1. to attend to, worship, cultivate
   • c. 850 Glosses on the Carlsruhe Beda, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 10–30, Bcr. 33^b2

     frecuirthe ceill ― (glosses Latin recole)

   • 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. 78^c8

     fris·foíchiurr céill ― (glosses Latin incolam (“I will cultivate”))

   • 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. 41^d16

     íc neich frit·curethar chéill

     the salvation of anyone who worships him

   • 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. 95^a1

     combad and namma fris·coirthe céil

     that it was only there that He was worshipped

2. to oppose, set aside

Usage notes

When used to mean "attend to, worship", céill (“mind”) must come after this verb.

Inflection

Complex, class W2b present, s preterite, s future, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.	fris·curiur		frit·curethar (with infixed pronoun t-); fris·cuirther
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Deut.	fris·foichiurr
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.						·rithrolat (normalized ·frithrolat)	fris·coirter
	Prot.							·frithrolaither (ro-form)
Past subjunctive	Deut.							fris·coirthe
	Prot.
Imperative			frecuirthe
Verbal noun		frecor
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
fris·cuirethar	fris·chuirethar	fris·cuirethar pronounced with /-ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fris-cuirethar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language