doraid

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From do- + either réid (“smooth; easy”) or the root of reithid (“to run”)[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdorɨðʲ]

Adjective

doraid

  1. difficult
    Synonyms: ansae, doirb
    • 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. 14d3
      cid écen aisndís do neuch as doruid co léir, ní sechmalfaider cuimre and dano
      though it is necessary to explain carefully anything that is difficult, however brevity will not be passed by

Declension

i-stem
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative doraid doraid doraid
vocative doraid
accusative doraid doraid
genitive doraid doirthe doraid
dative doraid doraid doraid
plural masculine feminine/neuter
nominative doirthi doirthi
vocative doirthi
accusative doirthi
genitive doraid*
doirthe
dative doirthib

*not when substantivized

Descendants

  • Irish: doraidh
  • Scottish Gaelic: doraidh

Mutation

Mutation of doraid
radical lenition nasalization
doraid doraid
pronounced with /ð-/		 ndoraid

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

References

  1. ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 166, page 104; reprinted 2017

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