èirich

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

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

Mutation of èirich

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
èirich	n-èirich	h-èirich	t-èirich

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “èirich”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 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