adteich

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• a·teich

Etymology

From ad- +‎ teichid (“to flee”). The prefixal -d- usually is lost in manuscript attestations.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a(ð)ˈtʲexʲ/

Verb

ad·teich (verbal noun attach)

1. to beseech, call on
   • c. 808, Félire Oengusso, Epilogue, line 301; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:

     Ad·róethach in rígraid   forsa raba íarar:
     á Íssu, co fírbail,   ata[t]·teoch-sa íaram.

     I have entreated the king-folk for whom there has been search: O Jesus, with true goodness, I entreat you sg afterwards.

   • 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. 39^b6

     inní as·péna .i. a·teich .i. gudes

     him who swears, i.e. who beseeches, i.e. who prays.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, á preterite, unreduplicated s future, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.	a·teoch		a·teich	atab·techam (with infixed pronoun tab-)
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.			a·taich
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.	ad·róethach
	Prot.
Future	Deut.				a·dessam (nasalized)
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative			ataich
Verbal noun		atach, attach
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Middle Irish: aitchid, ataigid
  • Irish: aitim

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ad·teich	ad·theich	ad·teich pronounced with /-d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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