uraid
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- urid
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *ɸeruti, from Proto-Indo-European *péruti.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈurəðʲ/
Adverb
uraid
- last year
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 16c14
- ón n-urid ― (glosses Latin ab annō priore)
- c. 775, Táin Bó Fraích from the Book of Leinster, published in Táin bó Fraích (1974, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited by Wolfgang Meid, line 263
- ...ind ordnasc do·ratus-[s]a duit-siu in uraid, in mair latt?
- The ring I gave you last year, is it still with you?
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 16c14
Usage notes
A particle in(n), generally identified as the accusative definite article, always precedes this adverb.
Descendants
- Middle Irish: uraid
- Irish: anuraidh
- Manx: nurree
- Scottish Gaelic: an-uiridh
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| uraid | unchanged | n-uraid |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*feruti”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 128
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “uraid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language