adrad
See also: ådrad
English
Adjective
adrad
- Obsolete spelling of adread.
- 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 18:
- For as I lay sleeping betwixt the strokes of night, a dream of the night stood by my bed and beheld me with a glance so fell that I was all adrad and quaking with fear.
Estonian
Noun
adrad
- nominative plural of ader
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Past participle of adreden, from Old English ondrǣdan.
Adjective
adrad
- Full of dread or fear; afraid.
- 1387–1400, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, Line 607:
- They were adrad of him as of death.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
- English: adread
See also
References
- “adrad”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Old Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin adōrātiō, assimilated to the suffix -ad.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈaðrað]
Noun
adrad m (genitive adartho)
- verbal noun of ad·ora
- worship
- 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. 67b24
- Inna c{h}enél fo·rrorbris, fos·roammámigestar dïa molad ⁊ dïa adrad.
- The peoples whom he has routed, he has subjugated them to his praise and to his worship.
- 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. 67b24
Inflection
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | adrad | adradL | adarthae |
vocative | adrad | adradL | adarthu |
accusative | adradN | adradL | adarthu |
genitive | adarthoH, adarthaH | adartho, adartha | adarthaeN |
dative | adradL | adarthaib | adarthaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
Descendants
Mutation
radical | lenition | nasalization |
---|---|---|
adrad (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
adrad | n-adrad |
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), “1 adrad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language