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adclaid

adclaid

Old Irish

Verb

ad·claid (prototonic ·aclaid)

  1. to hunt, fish
    • c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 112b2:
      an ad·cladat glosses aucupantes
      those who hunt
    • c. 810, Florence Glosses on Philargyrus, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 48, l. 6 (repeated on p. 362, last line):
      ad·cichlus glosses venabor
      I shall hunt

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Irish: achladh (act of fishing)
  • Scottish Gaelic: achladh (act of fishing), achlaid (chase, pursuit)

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
ad·claid ad·chlaid ad·claid
pronounced with /-ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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