inreith

Old Irish

Etymology

From ind- +‎ reithid.

Verb

in·reith (verbal noun indred)

1. to lay waste
2. to overrun, invade
   • 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. 35^a21

     dunaib huilib indirsib .i. inrorthatar fo chosmaili(i)us Assar.

     to all those overrun, i.e. they invaded after the fashion of the Assyrians.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, á preterite, unreduplicated s future, s subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.			in·reith
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.		in·rorad	in·roraid			in·rorthatar
	prot.
future	deut.			in·ré
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.			in·ré
	prot.						·indriset
past subjunctive	deut.						in·restais
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun		indred
past participle		indrisse
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of in·reith

radical	lenition	nasalization
in·reith	in·reith pronounced with /ɾʲ-/	in·reith

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ind-reith”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language