inreith

Old Irish

Etymology

From ind- +‎ reithid.

Verb

in·reith (verbal noun indred)

1. to lay waste
2. to overrun, invade
   • 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^a21

     dunaib huilib indirsib .i. inrorthatar fo chosmaili(i)us Assar.

     to all those overrun, i.e. they invaded after the fashion of the Assyrians.

Inflection

Complex, 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	Deut.			in·reith
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.		in·rorad	in·roraid			in·rorthatar
	Prot.
Future	Deut.			in·ré
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.			in·ré
	Prot.						·indriset
Past subjunctive	Deut.						in·restais
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun		indred
Past participle		indrisse
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
in·reith also in·rreith	in·reith 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

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