ruiri

Old Irish

Etymology

A compound involving rí (“king”).

Noun

ruiri m (genitive ruirech, nominative plural ruirig)

1. king

Inflection

Masculine g-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ruiri	ruirigL	ruirig
Vocative	ruiri	ruirigL	ruirecha
Accusative	ruirigN	ruirigL	ruirecha
Genitive	ruirech	ruirech	ruirechN
Dative	ruirigL	ruirechaib	ruirechaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Related terms

• rí

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ruiri also rruiri after a proclitic ending in a vowel	ruiri 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), “ruiri”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language