etercerta
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Old Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
eter·certa (prototonic ·etarcerta, verbal noun etercert)
- to interpret, explain
- 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. 12c32
- Acht nammáa is samlid is torbe són, co eter·certa a n‑as·bera et con·rucca i n‑ætarcne cáich.
- But it is only thus that this is a profit, that he may interpret what he says and bring it into everyone’s understanding.
- 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. 12c32
Conjugation[edit]
Complex, class A I present, a subjunctive
1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Present indicative | Deut. | eter·certar | |||||||
Prot. | ·etarcerta | ||||||||
Imperfect indicative | Deut. | etar·chertath | |||||||
Prot. | |||||||||
Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
Prot. | |||||||||
Perfect | Deut. | ||||||||
Prot. | |||||||||
Future | Deut. | ||||||||
Prot. | |||||||||
Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
Prot. | |||||||||
Present subjunctive | Deut. | eter·certa | |||||||
Prot. | |||||||||
Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
Prot. | |||||||||
Imperative | etarcertar | ||||||||
Verbal noun | etercert | ||||||||
Past participle | |||||||||
Verbal of necessity |
Alternative forms[edit]
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “eter·certa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Mutation[edit]
Old Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
eter·certa | eter·cherta | eter·certa pronounced with /-ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |