rannaid

Old Irish

Etymology

From rann +‎ -aid.

Verb

rannaid

1. to divide (into parts)
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 4^a16

     coro·rannam áorpe fri Crist

     so that we may part His heritage with Christ.

   • c. 750-800 Tairired na nDessi from Rawlinson B 502, published in "The Expulsion of the Dessi", Y Cymmrodor (1901, Society of Cymmrodorion), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, vol. 14, pp. 104-135, paragraph 22

     Rannait iarum na Déssi i cetrib rannaib na tiri-sin.

     The Déisi thereafter divide these lands into four parts.

   • c. 775, “Táin Bó Fraích”, in Book of Leinster; republished as Ernst Windisch, editor, Táin bó Fraích, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1974, line 116:

     Fora dernaind no·rannad cech n-ágae cona chlaidiub, ⁊ ní aidleth toinn ná féoil.

     On his [palm?], he used to cleave each joint with his sword, and did not hit the skin nor the flesh.

   • 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. 37^d9

     Noch is rantar són.

     That is to say, that it be divided.

2. to apportion

Inflection

Simple, class A I present, a subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	abs.						rannait
	conj.
	rel.
imperfect indicative				·rannad
preterite	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.				·rannam			·rantar
	rel.
past subjunctive
imperative
verbal noun
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Middle Irish: rainnid
  • Irish: roinn
  • Scottish Gaelic: roinn
  • Manx: rheynn

References

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