adrad

See also: ådrad

English

Adjective

adrad

  1. Obsolete spelling of adread.

Estonian

Noun

adrad

  1. nominative plural of ader

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Past participle of adreden, from Old English ondrǣdan.

Adjective

adrad

  1. 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

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adōrātiō, assimilated to the suffix -ad.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈaðrað]

Noun

adrad m (genitive adartho)

  1. verbal noun of ad·ora
  2. 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.

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
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

Mutation of adrad
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.

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