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Irish
Etymology
Perhaps from unattested Old Norse *spreiða, from Proto-Germanic *spraidijaną.
Pronunciation
Verb
spréigh (present analytic spréann, future analytic spréifidh, verbal noun spré, past participle spréite)
- to spread, scatter
Conjugation
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
Further reading
- “spréigh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “spréidid, spréigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “spréiḋim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “spréigh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 62