Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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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

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

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: uraid

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
uraid
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-uraid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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

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