fochricc

Old Irish

Alternative forms

fochraic

Etymology

From fo- +‎ creicc. The final velar in the verbal nouns of crenaid and its derivatives comes from being contaminated by ícc (“payment”).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɸoxrəɡʲ/, [ˈɸoxrɨɡʲ]

Noun

fochricc f (genitive fochricce, nominative plural fochricci)

verbal noun of fo·cren
reward
- 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. 10^d23
  Mad ar lóg pridcha-sa, .i. ar m’étiuth et mo thoschith, ním·bia fochricc dar hési mo precepte.
  If I preach for pay, that is, for my clothing and my sustenance, I shall not have a reward for my teaching.
- 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. 10^c21
  Ba torad sa⟨í⟩thir dúun in chrud so ce du·melmis cech túari et ce du·gnemmis a ndu·gníat ar céli, act ní bad nertad na mbráithre et frescsiu fochricce as móo.
  It would be a fruit of labor for us in this way if we consumed every food and if we did what our fellows do, but it would not be a strengthening of the brothers and a hope of a greater reward.

Declension

Feminine ī-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	fochricc^L	fochricc^L	fochricci^H
vocative	fochricc^L	fochricc^L	fochricci^H
accusative	fochricc^N	fochricc^L	fochricci^H
genitive	fochricce^H	fochricce^L	fochricce^N
dative	fochricc^L	fochriccib	fochriccib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Derived terms

fochrach
fochricnet
terḟochraic

Descendants

Irish: fochraig

Mutation

Mutation of *fochricc*
radical	lenition	nasalization
fochricc	ḟochricc	fochricc pronounced with /β̃-/

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

References

^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 737; reprinted 2017

Further reading

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