fríd

See also: frid, frið, and fríð

Irish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fʲɾʲiːdʲ/^[1]

Etymology 1

From earlier frighid, originally the dative singular of frigh, from Middle Irish frige.^[2]

Noun

fríd f (genitive singular fríde, nominative plural frídí or frídeacha)

fleshworm, mite

Declension

Declension of fríd (second declension)

bare forms
case	singular	plural
nominative	fríd	frídí
vocative	a fhríd	a fhrídí
genitive	fríde	frídí
dative	fríd	frídí

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an fhríd	na frídí
genitive	na fríde	na bhfrídí
dative	leis an bhfríd don fhríd	leis na frídí

Alternative plural form: frídeacha

Alternative forms

frigh (archaic, Ulster)

Derived terms

frídeog

Etymology 2

From a conflation of fri and trí, of which the form before the definite article is tríd.

Preposition

fríd (plus dative, triggers no mutation)

Ulster form of trí (“through”)

Inflection

Inflection of *fríd*
	Person:		simple	emphatic
singular	first		fríom	fríomsa
	second		fríod	fríotsa
	third	m	fríd	frítsean
	third	f	fríthe	frífse

plural	first		frínn	frínne
	second		fríbh	fríbhse
	third		fríofa	fríofasan

Pronoun

fríd (emphatic frídsean)

third-person singular masculine of fríd (“through”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of *fríd*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
fríd	fhríd	bhfríd

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 320, page 112
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “frige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

[1] Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 320, page 112

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

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