airid

See also: áirid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *aryeti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ér-ye-ti. Cognate with Welsh aredig.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.ɾʲəðʲ/
    • (Blasse) [ˈa.ɾʲɪðʲ]
    • (Griffith) [ˈa.ɾʲɨðʲ]

Verb

airid (conjunct ·air, verbal noun ar)

  1. to plough/plow, to till

Inflection

Simple, class B II present, a future, a subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative abs. airim
conj. ·air ·artharr
rel. aires
imperfect indicative
preterite abs.
conj.
rel.
perfect deut.
prot.
future abs.
conj. ·ebrat
rel.
conditional
present subjunctive abs.
conj. ·ara
rel.
past subjunctive
imperative
verbal noun ar
past participle airthe
verbal of necessity

Descendants

  • Irish: air (literary)
  • Scottish Gaelic: àir

References

  1. ^ Schumacher, Stefan; Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004), “*ar-i̯e/o-”, in Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Meid, →ISBN, pages 135, 204f.

Further reading

  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • Lewis, Henry; Pedersen, Holger (1989), A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 337
  • Vendryes, Joseph (1959), “ar-”, in Lexique étymologique de l’irlandais ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume A, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page A-81