adrad

Middle English

Alternative forms

• adred

Etymology

Past participle of Middle English adreden, from Old English ondrǣdan.

Adjective

adrad

1. Full of dread or fear; afraid.
   • 1387–1400, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, Line 607:

     They were adrad of him as of death.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• English: adread

See also

• ydrad (ydred)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “adrad”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adōrātiō, assimilated to the suffix -ad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaðrað/

Noun

adrad m (genitive adartho)

1. verbal noun of ad·or
2. worship

Descendants

• Irish: adhradh
• Scottish Gaelic: adhradh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
adrad (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-adrad
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), “1 adrad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language