adeirrig

== Old Irish == === Alternative forms === ad·errig === Etymology === The prefixes are either aith- +‎ air- or aith- +‎ ess-. The root was formerly believed to be Proto-Celtic *regeti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-. Nowadays however an unrelated verb *reketi is instead reconstructed as the root of ad·eirrig, in consideration of Brythonic relatives like Cornish edrek (“regret”). The two verbal nouns have different meanings: aithirge is “repentance, penitence, regret”, while aitherrach is “repetition, change”. It is therefore possible that this verb is actually the conflation of two originally distinct verbs, one from *regeti and the other from *reketi. === Verb === ad·eirrig (prototonic ·aithirrig, verbal noun aithirge or aitherrach) to repeat to improve to repent to bring to repentance For quotations using this term, see Citations:adeirrig. ==== Conjugation ==== Note: The present and past subjunctive are identical to the future and conditional, respectively. ==== Descendants ==== Middle Irish: aithrigid Irish: athraigh Manx: arraghey Scottish Gaelic: atharraich === Mutation === === References === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ad·eirrig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language