arachrin

Originally a euphemism or slang expression meaning “shake it”, from Proto-Celtic *ɸarekriniti (compare Welsh ergryn (“tremble, fear”)) with the infixed pronoun a- (“it”), from *ɸare- (“in front”) (> ar-) + *kriniti (“shake, sift”) (compare Welsh crynu (“shake, shiver”)), from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“shake, sift”) (compare Latin cernō (“I sift, separate”), Ancient Greek κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “separate”)).

• IPA^(key): [araˈxʲrʲinʲ]

ara·chrin (verbal noun irchre or erchrae)

1. to perish
2. to wear out (deteriorate or become unusable or ineffective due to continued use, exposure, or strain), to decay
3. to fail (be wanting; fall short)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:arachrin.

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• at·baill
• baïd

• Middle Irish: airchranaid, airchraid, airchradaid

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