fríd

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See also: frid, frið, and fríð

Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From earlier frighid, originally the dative singular of frigh, from Middle Irish frige.[2]

Noun

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fríd f (genitive singular fríde, nominative plural frídí or frídeacha)

  1. fleshworm, mite
Declension
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Further reading

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Etymology 2

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From a conflation of fri and trí, of which the form before the definite article is tríd.

Preposition

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fríd (plus dative, triggers no mutation)

  1. Ulster form of trí (through)
Inflection
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Pronoun

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fríd (emphatic frídsean)

  1. third-person singular masculine of fríd (through)

Further reading

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  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “frí”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 334
  • Ó Baoill, Dónall P. (1996) An Teanga Bheo: Gaeilge Uladh (in Irish), Dublin: Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann, →ISBN, pages 92, 96, 152
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fríd”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fríd fhríd bhfríd
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 320, page 112
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “frige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language