arneat

Old Irish

FWOTD – 16 March 2022

Etymology

From ar- +‎ ni- +‎ saidid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ar͈ˈn͈ʲe.əd/, [ar͈ˈn͈ʲe.ad]

Verb

ar·neät (prototonic ·airnet, verbal noun airnaide)

1. to expect, await
   • 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. 14^a18

     .i. ar ar·neut-sa

     i.e. because I expected (glossing Latin expecto enim)

   • 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. 42^c23

     .i. is mo de accobras-si la cách trissa n-ínnaide ara·neter-si isind aidchi.

     i.e. desire for it is the greater with everyone through the expectation with which it is expected in the night.

   • 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. 46^b20

     Arrot·neithius-sa dum fortacht, a Dǽ!

     I expected you to help me, O God!

2. to wait for another
3. to assume responsibility

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, s preterite, s subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.	ar·neut		ar·neat			ar·neithet	ara·neter (relative)
	prot.			·airnet			·urnaidet	·aurnaidter	·airnettar
imperfect indicative	deut.			ara·nethad (relative)			arun·nethitis
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.	arrot·neithius (with infixed pronoun t-)		ar·runeith; arro·neith; arru·neastar			arru·neithset
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.			ara·neastur
	prot.							·airnestar
past subjunctive	deut.		arra·nethe (expected arra·nethea)
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun		airnaide, ernaide
past participle
verbal of necessity

Further reading

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