arreith

Old Irish

Etymology

ar- + reithid

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /arˈr͈ʲeθʲ/

Verb

ar·reith (verbal noun airrecht)

  1. to capture, overtake
  2. to assail
    • 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. 6b22
      Ní latt aní ara·rethi et ní lat in cách forsa mmitter.
      What you assail is not yours, and not everyone whom you judge is yours.

Conjugation

Further reading

  • ar·reith” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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