orcaid
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *orgeti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erg- (“perish”). Cognate with Hittite 𒄯𒀝𒍣 (ḫar-ak-zi /ḫarkzi/) and Old Armenian հարկնանեմ (harknanem, “strike”).[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
orcaid
Inflection
Simple
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Abs. | orcaid | orgait | ||||||
| Conj. | ·oirg | ·orgar | |||||||
| Rel. | orcas | oircte | |||||||
| Imperfect indicative | |||||||||
| Preterite | Abs. | ||||||||
| Conj. | ·ort | ||||||||
| Rel. | orta | ||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | ro·ort | |||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Future | Abs. | íurth | iurait | ||||||
| Conj. | ·írr | ||||||||
| Rel. | íuras | ||||||||
| Conditional | ·íurmais | ||||||||
| Present subjunctive | Abs. | ||||||||
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| Past subjunctive | |||||||||
| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | |||||||||
| Past participle | ortae | ||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | orgun | ||||||||
Derived terms
Descendants
- Irish: arg
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “orcaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 300