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atreig

atreig

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • ad·reig

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

Related terms

  • ad·eirrig