sráit

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse stræti or Old English strǣt, from Proto-West Germanic *strātu, from Late Latin strāta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sraːdʲ/

Noun

sráit f

1. street, road, path, way

Inflection

Feminine ī-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	sráitL	sráitL	sráitiH
vocative	sráitL	sráitL	sráitiH
accusative	sráitiN	sráitL	sráitiH
genitive	sráiteH	sráiteL	sráiteN
dative	sráitiL	sráitib	sráitib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: sráid
• Manx: straid
• Scottish Gaelic: sràid

Mutation

Mutation of sráit

radical	lenition	nasalization
sráit	ṡráit	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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