doraid
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Old Irish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From do- + either réid (“smooth; easy”) or the root of reithid (“to run”)[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
doraid
- difficult
- 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
- 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
Declension[edit]
i-stem | |||
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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 | ||
Notes | *not when substantivized |
Descendants[edit]
- Old Irish: doraidh
Mutation[edit]
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
doraid | doraid pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ |
ndoraid |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References[edit]
- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 166, page 104
Further reading[edit]
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 doraid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language