ríchtu

Old Irish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /r͈ʲiːx.tu/

Noun

ríchtu f (genitive ríchtan)

verbal noun of ro·icc: reaching, arrival
- 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. 7^a3
  Is cían ós accobor lemm far ríchtu.
  I have long had a desire to come unto you.
- 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. 28^c9
  Fo·mentar mo rígtin-se; mos riccub-sa.
  May you take heed of my arrival; I shall arrive soon.
- 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. 105^a8
  Ar·fema .i. du·fórmastar cech fechtnaige for araili doib iar ríchtin tire tairngeri.
  It will receive, i.e. each prosperity will be added upon another to them after reaching the Land of Promise.

Inflection

Feminine n-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	ríchtu	—	—
vocative	ríchtu	—	—
accusative	ríchtin^N, rígtin	—	—
genitive	ríchtan	—	—
dative	ríchtin^L, ríchtu^L, rígtin	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Mutation

Mutation of *ríchtu*
radical	lenition	nasalization
ríchtu also rríchtu in h-prothesis environments	ríchtu pronounced with /ɾʲ-/	ríchtu also rríchtu

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

Further reading

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