spréigh

Irish

Alternative forms

  • sbréigh, spréidh (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

Perhaps from unattested Old Norse *spreiða, from Proto-Germanic *spraidijaną.

Pronunciation

Verb

spréigh (present analytic spréann, future analytic spréifidh, verbal noun spré, past participle spréite)

  1. to spread, scatter

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ spréigh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 162, page 62

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