doraid

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• doruid

Etymology

From do- + either réid (“smooth; easy”) or the root of reithid (“to run”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdorɨðʲ]

Adjective

doraid

1. difficult
   • 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. 14^d3

     cid écen aisndís do neuch as doruid co léir, ní sechmalfaider cuimre and dano

     though it is necessary to explain carefully anything that is difficult, however brevity will not be passed by

Declension

i-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	doraid	doraid	doraid
Vocative	doraid
Accusative	doraid	doraid
Genitive	doraid	doirthe	doraid
Dative	doraid	doraid	doraid
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	doirthi	doirthi
Vocative	doirthi
Accusative	doirthi
Genitive	doraid* doirthe
Dative	doirthib
Notes	*not when substantivized

Descendants

• Old Irish: doraidh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
doraid	doraid pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndoraid
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), “1 doraid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language