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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *reteti , from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- .
Pronunciation
Verb
reithid (conjunct ·reith , verbal noun riuth or rith )
to run , to speed
c. 750-800 Torche na nDessi from Laud 610, published in "The Expulsion of the Déssi", Ériu 3 (1907), edited by Kuno Meyer, pp. 135-142, line 207
Amal ossa, is amlaid ro·ráthatar ass. They ran away like deer. (literally, “Like deer, it's like them they ran away. ”)
Inflection
Simple, class B I present, á preterite, unreduplicated s future, s subjunctive
active
passive
singular
plural
singular
plural
1st
2nd
3rd
1st
2nd
3rd
present indicative
abs.
rithu , rithim
rithi
rethid , rethith
rethmai
reithe
rethait
conj.
·riuth
·rethi
·reith
·retham
·reithid
·rethat
rel.
rethes , rethess
retae , rethae
imperfect indicative
·reitis , ·reithis
preterite
abs.
ráith
ráthatar
conj.
rel.
perfect
deut.
ro·ráthatar
prot.
·rorthatar , ·rorthetar , ·rrúairthetar
future
abs.
reiss
conj.
·ré
·ressat
rel.
conditional
present subjunctive
abs.
reiss
conj.
·ré
·ressat
rel.
past subjunctive
·ressed
imperative
verbal noun
rith , riuth
past participle
verbal of necessity
Derived terms
Descendants
In all modern Goidelic languages, the verbal reflex of reithid came to adopt the same vowel as the verbal noun riuth .
Mutation
Mutation of reithid
radical
lenition
nasalization
reithid also rreithid in h-prothesis environments
reithid pronounced with /ɾʲ-/
reithid also rreithid
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “reithid ”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Pedersen, Holger (1913 ) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN , § 597 , pages 597–598