atreig

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • ad·reig

Etymology

ess- +‎ infixed pronoun d- +‎ Proto-Celtic *regeti (“to stretch, straighten”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /adˈrʲeɣʲ/

Verb

at·reig (verbal noun éirge)

  1. (reflexive) to rise, arise, get up
    • c. 8th century, anonymous, St. Patrick's Breastplate, published and translated 1903 in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan:
      Atomriug indiu
       niurt trén togairm trindóit
       cretim treodatad
       fóisitin oendatad
       in dúleman dail.
      I arise to-day
       through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,
       through belief in the threeness,
       through confession of the oneness
       of the Creator of creation (?).

Conjugation

  • Note: the future and the present subjunctive have the same form, as do the conditional and the past subjunctive. The forms are listed here as being future/conditional, but in context they could also be present/past subjunctive.

Descendants

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