asrochoíli

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From ess- +‎ ro- +‎ Proto-Celtic *kailīti (to divine), from *kailos (omen) (compare Welsh coel (belief, trust)), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (whole).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [asˈr͈oxoːi̯lʲi]

Verb

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as·rochoíli (verbal noun érchoíliud)

  1. to determine
    • 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. 35d22
      Ní rádi ní trí thalmaidchi amal dund·chuirethar inna beulu acht as·rochoíli ⁊ im·rádi ɔdib sainemail na nní labrathar.
      He does not say anything in haste as he puts [his words] into his mouth, but instead he determines [what he is about to say] and thinks [before he speaks] so that anything he says is excellent.
    • 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. 46c7
      dona⟨ib⟩hí diand·rérchoíl intí Día
      to those for whom God himself has determined it

Conjugation

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An older third-person singular preterite form as·rochoíli coexisted with the analogically endingless *as·rochoíl.[2] (Compare the prototonic perfect ·rérchoíl as well as at·rocuil in the manuscript of Tallaght Monastery.)[3]

References

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  1. ^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 690, page 495
  2. ^ McCone, Kim (1997) The Early Irish Verb (Maynooth Monographs 1), 2nd edition, Maynooth: An Sagart, →ISBN, page 56
  3. ^ E. J. Gwynn and W. J. Purton, editors (1911), The Monastery of Tallaght (Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy; vol. XXIX, section C, no. 5), Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., § 62, page 151, line 11

Further reading

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