asrochoíli

Old Irish

Etymology

From ess- +‎ ro- +‎ Proto-Celtic *kailīti (“to divine”), from *kailos (“omen”) (compare Welsh coel (“belief, trust”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“whole”).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [asˈr͈oxoːi̯lʲi]

Verb

as·rochoíli (verbal noun érchoíliud)

to determine

Conjugation

Complex, class A II present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive
		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd	singular	plural
present indicative	deut.			as·rochoíli
present indicative	prot.

imperfect indicative	deut.			as·rochoíled
imperfect indicative	prot.

preterite	deut.			as·rochoíli	as·rochoílsem	as·rochoílsid	as·rochoílset
preterite	prot.

perfect	deut.
perfect	prot.			·rérchoíl

future	deut.
future	prot.

conditional	deut.
conditional	prot.

present subjunctive	deut.
present subjunctive	prot.

past subjunctive	deut.			as·rochoíled
past subjunctive	prot.

imperative			atam·rochoíl (with infixed pronoun dam-)

verbal noun		érchoíliud, hérchoíliud, hérchóiliuth
past participle		érchóilte
verbal of necessity

An older third-person singular preterite form as·rochoíli coexisted with the analogically endingless *as·rochoíl.^[2] (Compare the prototonic perfect ·rérchoíl as well as at·rocuil in the manuscript of Tallaght Monastery.)^[3]

Quotations

c. 800–825, Diarmait, 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. 22^c3
Dond érchoíliud .i. fortan·roíchan-ni hó ḟortacht dund érchoíliud as·rochoílsem; is hé didiu int ǽrchoíliud ut honorabiles rl.
To the determination, i.e. you sg have instructed us by help to the determination that we have made; this then is the determination, ut honorabiles etc.
(literally, “to the determination that we have determined”)
c. 800–825, Diarmait, 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. 35^d22
Ní rádi ní trí thalmaidchi amal dund·chuirethar inna beulu acht as·rochoíli ⁊ im·rádi ɔdib sainemail na nní labrathar.
He does not say anything in haste as he puts [his words] into his mouth, but instead he determines [what he is about to say] and thinks [before he speaks] so that anything he says is excellent.
c. 800–825, Diarmait, 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. 46^c7
dona⟨ib⟩hí diand·rérchoíl intí Día
to those for whom God himself has determined it

References

^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 690, page 495
^ McCone, Kim (1997) The Early Irish Verb (Maynooth Monographs 1), 2nd edition, Maynooth: An Sagart, →ISBN, page 56
^ E. J. Gwynn and W. J. Purton, editors (1911), The Monastery of Tallaght (Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy; vol. XXIX, section C, no. 5), Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., § 62, page 151, line 11