frisaccai

Old Irish

Etymology

From frith- +‎ ad·cí.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɸʲɾʲisˈa.ki/

Verb

fris·accai (prototonic ·frescai, verbal noun frescisiu)

1. to expect
2. to hope for, look forward to

For quotations using this term, see Citations:frisaccai.

Inflection

Complex, class A III present, reduplicated preterite, a subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.	fris·aiccim	fris·aiccai	fris·accai			fris·accat
	prot.	·frescu		·frescai			·frescat
imperfect indicative	deut.						fris·aiccitis
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.			·frescachae
perfect	deut.	fris·racacha		ru·frescachae			frit·racatar (with infixed pronoun d-)
	prot.						·frescachtar; ·frescisset
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.	fris·accar		fris·aiccidar		fris·aiccid	fris·accat, fris·accatar
	prot.		·frescai
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.			·fresced
imperative
verbal noun		frescisiu
past participle
verbal of necessity

Synonyms

• (expect): ar·neät
• (hope for, look forward to): saílid

Mutation

Mutation of fris·accai

radical	lenition	nasalization
fris·accai (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	fris·accai	fris·n-accai

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), “frisaccai”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language