maraid

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *mareti, from Proto-Indo-European *merh₂-[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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maraid (conjunct ·mair, verbal noun marthain)

  1. to last, persist, remain
    • 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:
      "A ingen", ol Ailill, "ind ordnasc doratus-[s]a duit-siu in uraid, in mair latt? Tuc dam conda·accatar ind óic. Rot·bia-su íarum."
      "My daughter [Findabair]", said Ailill, "the ring I gave you last year, does it still remain on you? Bring it to me so that the warriors can see it. You can have it back afterwards."
  2. to survive, live

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Irish: mair
  • Scottish Gaelic: mair

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mar-o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 257-258

Further reading

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