doraid
Old Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom do- + either réid (“smooth; easy”) or the root of reithid (“to run”)[1]
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editdoraid
- 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. 14d3
- 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
- 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. 14d3
Declension
editi-stem | |||
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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
edit- Old Irish: doraidh
Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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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. |
References
edit- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 166, page 104
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 doraid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language