sóeraid

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Old Irish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From sóer +‎ -aid.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

sóeraid (prototonic ·sóera, verbal noun sóerad)

  1. to free, liberate
  2. to save, rescue, deliver
    • 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. 90c19
      Ní fetar indam·ṡoírfad Día fa nacc.
      I do not know whether God would deliver me or not.

Inflection[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Middle Irish: sáeraid

Mutation[edit]

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
sóeraid ṡóeraid unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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