aráili

See also: araili

Old Irish

Etymology

From ar- + áilid (to request, deserve).

Verb

ar·áili (prototonic ·éráli, verbal noun eráil or iráil)

  1. to prompt, cause, bring about
    • c. 775, Táin Bó Fraích from the Book of Leinster, published in Táin bó Fraích (1974, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited by Wolfgang Meid, line 293
      For fír th'ainich & t'anma[e], a Fróeich, asndíth cía cruth ar·rálad a tabairt ass.
      On the truth of your honour and your soul, Fróech, tell [us] how the retrieval of [the ring] out of [the dark pool] was brought about.
    • c. 815–840, published in "The Monastery of Tallaght", in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (1911-1912, Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Edward J. Gwynn and Walter J. Purton, vol. 29, pp. 115–179, paragraph 66,
      "Nicom·bia bríg isindi-sin. Demmun arid·ralistar-sin", olse-siom, "dot breith-siu úanna & dot fastad eiter tuaid & dot breith a teg pendi corop imdergad deit fía cách."
      "That shall not matter. [It was] the Devil who contrived it," [Findio] said, "to carry you off from us, and set you among the laity, and bring you into a penitentiary, that you may be publicly put to shame."
    Synonyms: do·áirci, fo·fera, im·folngai

Inflection

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
ar·áili unchanged ar·n-áili
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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