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): /aðˈt̠ʲexʲ/

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

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
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

Mutation of ad·teich

radical	lenition	nasalization
ad·teich	ad·teich	ad·teich pronounced with /d̪̠ʲ-/

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), “adteich”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language