inreith

Old Irish

Etymology

From ind- +‎ reithid.

Verb

in·reith (verbal noun indred)

  1. to lay waste
  2. to overrun, invade
    • 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. 35a21
      dunaib huilib indirsib .i. inrorthatar fo chosmaili(i)us Assar.
      to all those overrun, i.e. they invaded after the fashion of the Assyrians.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, á preterite, unreduplicated s future, s subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut. in·reith
prot.
imperfect indicative deut.
prot.
preterite deut.
prot.
perfect deut. in·rorad in·roraid in·rorthatar
prot.
future deut. in·ré
prot.
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut. in·ré
prot. ·indriset
past subjunctive deut. in·restais
prot.
imperative
verbal noun indred
past participle indrisse
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of in·reith
radical lenition nasalization
in·reith
also in·rreith
in·reith
pronounced with /ɾʲ-/
in·reith
also in·rreith

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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