fríd

See also: frid, frið, and fríð

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fʲɾʲiːdʲ/[1]

Etymology 1

From earlier frighid, originally the dative singular of frigh, from Middle Irish frige.[2]

Alternative forms

Noun

fríd f (genitive singular fríde, nominative plural frídí or frídeacha)

  1. fleshworm, mite
Declension
Declension of fríd (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative fríd frídí
vocative a fhríd a fhrídí
genitive fríde frídí
dative fríd frídí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an fhríd na frídí
genitive na fríde na bhfrídí
dative leis an bhfríd
don fhríd 		leis na frídí
Derived terms

Further reading

Etymology 2

From a conflation of fri and trí, of which the form before the definite article is tríd.

Preposition

fríd (plus dative, triggers no mutation)

  1. Ulster form of trí (“through”)
Inflection
Inflection of fríd
Person: simple emphatic
singular first fríom fríomsa
second fríod fríotsa
third m fríd frítsean
f fríthe frífse
plural first frínn frínne
second fríbh fríbhse
third fríofa fríofasan

Pronoun

fríd (emphatic frídsean)

  1. third-person singular masculine of fríd (“through”)

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “frí”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 334
  • Ó Baoill, Dónall P. (1996) An Teanga Bheo: Gaeilge Uladh (in Irish), Baile Átha Cliath [Dublin]: Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann [Linguistics Institute of Ireland], →ISBN, pages 92, 96, 152
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fríd”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Mutation

Mutated forms of fríd
radical lenition eclipsis
fríd fhríd bhfríd

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 320, page 112
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “frige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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