reithid

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *reteti, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂-.

Pronunciation

Verb

reithid (conjunct ·reith, verbal noun riuth or rith)

  1. 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 [s]amlaid ro·ráthatar ass.
      They ran away like deer.
      (literally, “Like deer, it's like them they ran away.”)

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: rith
  • Manx: roie
  • Scottish Gaelic: ruith

Mutation

Mutation of reithid
radical lenition nasalization
reithid
also rreithid after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
reithid
pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/
unchanged

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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