reithid
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *reteti, from Proto-Indo-European *Hret-.
Pronunciation
Verb
reithid (conjunct ·reith, verbal noun riuth or rith)
- to run, to speed
- c. 750-800 Torche na nDessi from Laud 610, published in "The Expulsion of the Déssi", Ériu 3 (1907), edited by Kuno Meyer, pp. 135-142, line 207
- Amal ossa, is [s]amlaid ro·ráthatar ass.
- They ran away like deer.
- (literally, “Like deer, it's like them they ran away.”)
- c. 750-800 Torche na nDessi from Laud 610, published in "The Expulsion of the Déssi", Ériu 3 (1907), edited by Kuno Meyer, pp. 135-142, line 207
Inflection
Simple, class B I present, á preterite, unreduplicated s future, s subjunctive
1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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Present indicative | Abs. | rithu, rithim | rithi | rethid, rethith | rethmai | reithe | rethait | ||
Conj. | ·riuth | ·rethi | ·reith | ·retham | ·reithid | ·rethat | |||
Rel. | rethes, rethess | retae, rethae | |||||||
Imperfect indicative | ·reitis, ·reithis | ||||||||
Preterite | Abs. | ráith | ráthatar | ||||||
Conj. | |||||||||
Rel. | |||||||||
Perfect | Deut. | ro·ráthatar | |||||||
Prot. | ·rorthatar, ·rorthetar, ·rrúairthetar | ||||||||
Future | Abs. | reiss | |||||||
Conj. | ·ré | ·ressat | |||||||
Rel. | |||||||||
Conditional | |||||||||
Present subjunctive | Abs. | reiss | |||||||
Conj. | ·ré | ·ressat | |||||||
Rel. | |||||||||
Past subjunctive | ·ressed | ||||||||
Imperative | |||||||||
Verbal noun | rith, riuth | ||||||||
Past participle | |||||||||
Verbal of necessity |
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
reithid also rreithid after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
reithid pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “reithid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *Hret-
- Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish verbs
- Old Irish terms with quotations
- Old Irish simple verbs
- Old Irish class B I present verbs
- Old Irish á preterite verbs
- Old Irish unreduplicated s future verbs
- Old Irish s subjunctive verbs