errach

Old Irish

Etymology

Pedersen derives this from Proto-Celtic *wesrakos, an enlargement of Proto-Celtic *wesr-, from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥. Compare Latin ver (“spring”). Stifter disputes this, pointing out that **ferach would be expected. He instead derives it from the precursor of Middle Irish err (“hind”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈer͈ax/

Noun

errach m (genitive erraig, no plural)

  1. spring (season)
    • c. 850, Glosses on the Carlsruhe Beda, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 10–30, Bcr. 37a1
      ó errug glosses vere

Inflection
Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative errach — —
Vocative erraig — —
Accusative errachN — —
Genitive erraigL — —
Dative erruchL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants
  • Irish: earrach
  • Scottish Gaelic: earrach
  • Manx: arragh

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

See also

References
  1. Stifter, David (2023), “The rise of gemination in Celtic”, in Open Research Europe‎, volume 3, DOI:10.12688/openreseurope.15400.1, page 24

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