# asrochoíli
## Old Irish
### Etymology

From ess- +‎ ro- +‎ Proto-Celtic *kailīti (“to divine”), from *kailos (“omen”) (compare Welsh coel (“belief, trust”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“whole”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [asˈr͈oxoːi̯lʲi]

### Verb

as·rochoíli (verbal noun érchoíliud)
* to determine

#### Conjugation

| | | 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. |
| Present indicative | Deut. | | | as·rochoíli | | | |
| Present indicative | Prot. | | | | | | |
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | | | as·rochoíled | | | |
| Imperfect indicative | Prot. | | | | | | |
| Preterite | Deut. | | | as·rochoíli | as·rochoílsem | as·rochoílsid | as·rochoílset |
| Preterite | Prot. | | | | | | |
| Perfect | Deut. | | | | | | |
| Perfect | Prot. | | | ·rérchoíl | | | |
| Future | Deut. | | | | | | |
| Future | Prot. | | | | | | |
| Conditional | Deut. | | | | | | |
| Conditional | Prot. | | | | | | |
| Present subjunctive | Deut. | | | | | | |
| Present subjunctive | Prot. | | | | | | |
| Past subjunctive | Deut. | | | as·rochoíled | | | |
| Past subjunctive | Prot. | | | | | | |
| Imperative | Imperative | | atam·rochoíl (with infixed pronoun dam-) | | | | |
| Verbal noun | Verbal noun | érchoíliud, hérchoíliud, hérchóiliuth | | | | | |
| Past participle | Past participle | érchóilte | | | | | |
| Verbal of necessity | Verbal of necessity | | | | | | |
An older third-person singular preterite form as·rochoíli coexisted with the analogically endingless *as·rochoíl. (Compare the prototonic perfect ·rérchoíl as well as at·rocuil in the manuscript of Tallaght Monastery.)

#### Quotations

* 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. 22$^c$3
    Dond érchoíliud .i. fortan·roíchan-ni hó ḟortacht dund érchoíliud as·rochoílsem; is hé didiu int ǽrchoíliud ut honorabiles rl.To the determination, i.e. you sg have instructed us by help to the determination that we have made; this then is the determination, ut honorabiles etc.(literally, “to the determination that we have determined”)
* c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 35$^d$22
    Ní rádi ní trí thalmaidchi amal dund·chuirethar inna beulu acht as·rochoíli ⁊ im·rádi ɔdib sainemail na nní labrathar.He does not say anything in haste as he puts [his words] into his mouth, but instead he determines [what he is about to say] and thinks [before he speaks] so that anything he says is excellent.
* c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 46$^c$7
    dona⟨ib⟩hí diand·rérchoíl intí Díato those for whom God himself has determined it

### References

* ↑ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 690, page 495
* ↑ McCone, Kim (1997) The Early Irish Verb (Maynooth Monographs 1), 2nd edition, Maynooth: An Sagart, →ISBN, page 56
* ↑ E. J. Gwynn and W. J. Purton, editors (1911), The Monastery of Tallaght (Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy; vol. XXIX, section C, no. 5), Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., § 62, page 151, line 11

### Further reading

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