oirid
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Middle Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perhaps a contamination of ailid (“to suit”) with foirid (“to help”).
Verb
[edit]oirid
- to suit, correspond to (often with do)
Mutation
[edit]| Middle Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| oirid | unchanged | n-oirid |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “oirid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language