reithid

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• rethid, rethith

Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *reteti, from Proto-Indo-European *Hret-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈr͈ʲeθʲiðʲ/

Verb

reithid (conjunct ·reith, verbal noun riuth or rith)

1. to run, to speed

Inflection

Simple, class B I present, suffixless preterite, unreduplicated s future, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Abs.			rethid, rethith			reth(a)it
	Conj.	·riuth	·rethi	·reith	·retham		·rethat
	Rel.			rethes(s)			ret(h)ae
Imperfect indicative							·reit(h)is
Preterite	Abs.			raith			rathatar
	Conj.
	Rel.
Perfect	Deut.
	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		ri(u)th
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• ad·reith
• ar·reith
• con·tetarrat
• do·airret
• do·etarrat
• do·fuarat
• do·íarmórat
• do·imthiret
• fo·reith
• fo·timmthirid
• in·reith

 

Descendants

• Irish: rith
• Manx: roie
• Scottish Gaelic: ruith

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
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