reithid
Old Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *reteti, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂-.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
reithid (conjunct ·reith, verbal noun riuth or rith)
- to run, to speed
- c. 750-800 Torche na nDessi from Laud 610, published in "The Expulsion of the Déssi", Ériu 3 (1907), edited by Kuno Meyer, pp. 135-142, line 207
- Amal ossa, is [s]amlaid ro·ráthatar ass.
- They ran away like deer.
- (literally, “Like deer, it's like them they ran away.”)
- c. 750-800 Torche na nDessi from Laud 610, published in "The Expulsion of the Déssi", Ériu 3 (1907), edited by Kuno Meyer, pp. 135-142, line 207
Inflection edit
Simple, class B I present, á preterite, unreduplicated s future, s subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Abs. | rithu, rithim | rithi | rethid, rethith | rethmai | reithe | rethait | ||
| Conj. | ·riuth | ·rethi | ·reith | ·retham | ·reithid | ·rethat | |||
| Rel. | rethes, rethess | retae, rethae | |||||||
| Imperfect indicative | ·reitis, ·reithis | ||||||||
| Preterite | Abs. | ráith | ráthatar | ||||||
| Conj. | |||||||||
| Rel. | |||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | ro·ráthatar | |||||||
| Prot. | ·rorthatar, ·rorthetar, ·rrúairthetar | ||||||||
| Future | Abs. | reiss | |||||||
| Conj. | ·ré | ·ressat | |||||||
| Rel. | |||||||||
| Conditional | |||||||||
| Present subjunctive | Abs. | reiss | |||||||
| Conj. | ·ré | ·ressat | |||||||
| Rel. | |||||||||
| Past subjunctive | ·ressed | ||||||||
| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | rith, riuth | ||||||||
| Past participle | |||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Mutation edit
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| reithid also rreithid after a proclitic |
reithid pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “reithid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, pages 597–598