indred

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Old Irish

Noun

indred n (genitive indrid, nominative plural indreda)

  1. verbal noun of in·reith:
    1. incursion, invasion, attack
      • 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. 27a1
        ind indrid naimtidi
        of the hostile incursion
      • 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. 66c19
        .i. in mór-indrid ara·robert Deichthriub 7 áis Siriæ
        i.e. of the great incursion that the Ten Tribes and Syrians devised
      • c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 90, pages 115-179:
        […] cobair fo·reissed má do·berthe inruth no·cobrafad & do·berar, iarnasa indruth nad cobradar.
        help which would render aid if an attack should be made, and there is an attack which it does not help .
    2. devastation

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative indredN indredN indredL, indreda
Vocative indredN indredN indredL, indreda
Accusative indredN indredN indredL, indreda
Genitive indridL indred indredN
Dative indriudL indredaib indredaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: inred

Mutation

Mutation of indred
radical lenition nasalization
indred
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) 		unchanged n-indred

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

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