èirich

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish éirgid (compare Irish éirigh, Manx irree), from Old Irish at·reig (rises), from Proto-Celtic *regeti (to stretch, straighten), form Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (to straighten).

Verb

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èirich (past dh'èirich, future èirichidh, verbal noun èirigh, past participle èirichte)

  1. rise, arise, get up, stand up
  2. rise up, rebel, revolt

Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
èirich n-èirich h-èirich t-èirich
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “èirich”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “éirgid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language