cúrsachad

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• cúrsagad

Etymology

From cúrsaigid +‎ -ad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːrsaxað/

Noun

cúrsachad m (genitive cúrsactha or cuarsachada)

1. verbal noun of cúrsaigid
2. reprimand, correction, reproof
   • 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. 7^d8

     Do·beir-som ainm bráthre doib, arná·epret is ara miscuis in cúrsachad, act is ara seircc.

     He calls them brothers, lest they should say the reprimand is because of hatred for them, but it is because of love for them.

Declension

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	cúrsachad	—	—
Vocative	cúrsachad	—	—
Accusative	cúrsachadN	—	—
Genitive	cúrsacthaH, cuarsachadaH	—	—
Dative	cúrsachadL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cúrsachad	chúrsachad	cúrsachad pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cúrsachad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language