esorcon

Old Irish

Alternative forms

essarcon (Würzburg glosses)

Etymology

From ess- +‎ orcun.^[1]

Noun

esorcon f (genitive esoircne, nominative plural esaircnea)

verbal noun of as·oirc
1. smiting, beating
  - c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12^d3
    i. bid essarcon aiéir dúib arni·tucfa nech a n-as·berith.
    i.e. it will be a beating of the air by you, for no one will understand what ye will say.
  - 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. 131^b12
    .i. corrobu bec du essarcnaib fo·rodama[i]r.
    i.e. so that it was few blows that it has endured.
2. destruction
  - c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 33^a3
    airindí a·treba aesorcuin
    because he possesses destruction [Glossator is connecting Latin Caesar with caedo (“to strike, beat, kill, defeat”)]

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	esorcon^L	esorcuin^L	esaircnea^H
vocative	esorcon^L	esorcuin^L	esaircnea^H
accusative	esorcuin^N	esorcuin^L	esaircnea^H
genitive	esoircne^H	esorcon^L	esorcon^N
dative	esorcuin^L	esaircnib, essarcnaib	esaircnib, essarcnaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of *esorcon*
radical	lenition	nasalization
esorcon (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	esorcon	n-esorcon

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

^ Stüber, Karin (2015) “esorcon”, in Die Verbalabstrakta des Altirischen (in German), page 471

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language