arléici

Old Irish

Etymology

From air- +‎ léicid.

Verb

ar·léici (verbal noun airliciud)

1. to lend (with implied interest)
   • 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. 127^a18

     hondí as·ren ní ara·léicthar do

     because he repays whatever is lent to him

Inflection

Complex, class A II present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.							ara·léicthar (relative)
	prot.							·airlicther
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.			·arlaic
perfect	deut.			ara·relicc				ara·reilced
	prot.							·rairleced
future	deut.							ar·leicfither
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Middle Irish: arlaicid
  • Irish: áirligh

Mutation

Mutation of ar·léici

radical	lenition	nasalization
ar·léici	ar·léici pronounced with /lʲ-/	ar·léici

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), “ar-léici”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language