peccad

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• pecad, peccath

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin peccātum. The inflection as a u-stem is due to analogy with the verbal noun suffix -ad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʲekað/

Noun

peccad m

1. sin
   • 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. 14^d17

     coní árim-se peccad libsi uili, ꝉ ara·tart-sa fortacht dúibsi, arnap trom fuirib for n‑oínur

     so that I may not count sin with you all, or so that I may give aid to you lest it be heavy on you by yourselves

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	peccad, peccath, pecad	peccadL, peccath, pecad	pec(c)thiH, pectha(i), pecdae
Vocative	peccad, peccath, pecad	peccadL, peccath, pecad	pecthu
Accusative	peccadN, peccath, pecad	peccadL, peccath, pecad	pecthu
Genitive	pec(c)thoH, pec(c)thaH	pec(c)thoL, pec(c)thaL	pecth(a)eN
Dative	peccadL, peccath, pecad	pecth(a)ib	pecth(a)ib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: peccad (o-stem)
  • Irish: peaca
  • Manx: peccah
  • Scottish Gaelic: peacadh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
peccad	pheccad or unchanged	peccad pronounced with /b(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pec(c)ad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language