adais

Uncertain. Contains ad-, which disappears in the prototonic forms similarly to ad·ágathar (“to fear”).

ad·ais (prototonic ·ais)

1. to fear

   Synonym: ad·ágathar

   • c. 760 Blathmac mac Con Brettan, published in "A study of the lexicon of the poems of Blathmac Son of Cú Brettan" (2017; PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth), edited and with translations by Siobhán Barrett, stanza 267

     Scarfaid – mairg nád·ais a thnú – caírcha gela fri mindu.

     He will separate – woe the one who does not fear his wrath – bright sheep from goats.

2. to hate (especially when contrasted with caraid (“to love”))

   Antonym: caraid

   • c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, published in Táin Bó Cúailnge. Recension I (1976, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Cecile O'Rahilly, TBC-I page 46

     "Cia t'ainm-siu?" olsé. "Nachit aiss, nachit chara — Bude mac Báin," olsé.

     "What's your name?" said. "One who hates you not, who loves you not, Buide mac Báin," he said.

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