reicc

Old Irish

Alternative forms

reic

Noun

reicc f

verbal noun of renaid: sale, selling
- c. 760 Blathmac mac Con Brettan, published in "A study of the lexicon of the poems of Blathmac Son of Cú Brettan" (2017; PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth), edited and with translations by Siobhán Barrett, stanza 108
  Reic Críst, ba droch-cundrad sé
  Arin tríchait n-airgdide.
  Selling [out] Christ, that was a bad bargain
  For thirty pieces of silver.

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	reicc^L	—	—
vocative	reicc^L	—	—
accusative	reicc^N	—	—
genitive	reicce^H	—	—
dative	reicc^L	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Descendants

Middle Irish: reicc
- Irish: reic
- Scottish Gaelic: reic

Mutation

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

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), “1 reic(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language