uraid

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• urid

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ɸeruti, from Proto-Indo-European *péruti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈurəðʲ/

Adverb

uraid

1. last year
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 16^c14

     ón n-urid ― (glosses Latin ab annō priore)

   • c. 775, “Táin Bó Fraích”, in Book of Leinster; republished as Ernst Windisch, editor, Táin bó Fraích, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1974, line 263:

     ...ind ordnasc do·ratus-[s]a duit-siu in uraid, in mair latt?

     The ring I gave you last year, is it still with you?

Usage notes

A particle in(n), generally identified as the accusative definite article, always precedes this adverb.

Descendants

• Middle Irish: uraid
  • Irish: anuraidh
  • Manx: nurree
  • Scottish Gaelic: an-uiridh

Mutation

Mutation of uraid

radical	lenition	nasalization
uraid (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-uraid

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), “uraid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language