sóeraid

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From sóer +‎ -aid.

Pronunciation

Verb

sóeraid (prototonic ·sóera, verbal noun sóerad)

  1. to free, liberate
  2. to save, rescue, deliver
    • 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. 90c19
      Ní fetar indam·ṡoírfad Día fa nacc.
      I do not know whether God would deliver me or not.

Inflection

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: sáeraid

Mutation

Mutation of sóeraid
radical lenition nasalization
sóeraid ṡóeraid 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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