Old Irish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Celtic *ɸeruti, from Proto-Indo-European *péruti.[1]

Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

uraid

  1. last year
    • 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. 16c14
      ón n-urid(glosses Latin ab annō priore)
    • c. 775, “Táin Bó Fraích”, in Book of Leinster; republished as Ernst Windisch, editor, Táin bó Fraích, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1974, line 263:
      ...ind ordnasc do·ratus-[s]a duit-siu in uraid, in mair latt?
      The ring I gave you last year, is it still with you?

Usage notes edit

A particle in(n), generally identified as the accusative definite article, always precedes this adverb.

Descendants edit

  • Middle Irish: uraid

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
uraid unchanged n-uraid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*feruti”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 128

Further reading edit