oirid

Middle Irish

Etymology

Perhaps a contamination of ailid (“to suit”) with foirid (“to help”).

Verb

oirid

1. to suit, correspond to (often with do)

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
oirid	unchanged	n-oirid
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), “oirid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language