immráidi

Old Irish

Etymology

From imm- +‎ ráidid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imʲˈr͈aː.ði/

Verb

imm·ráidi (verbal noun imrádud or imrád)

1. to think over, to reflect on, to meditate
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14^c23

     co beid .i. co mbed a ndéde sin im labrad-sa .i. gáu et fír .i. combad sain a n‑as·berin ó bélib et aní imme·rádin ó chridiu

     so that there may be, i.e. so that those two things might be in my speaking, namely false and true, i.e. so that what I might say with [my] mouth and what I might think with [my] heart might be different

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 23^b24

     Ní imned lim act rop Críst pridches et imme·ráda cách.

     It is not tribulation for me provided that it is Christ on whom everyone preaches and meditates.

   • 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. 55^c19

     Cid in tan no·mbíth inna ligiu, ba ac imrádud chloíne no·bíth.

     Even when he used to be in his bed, he used to be meditating iniquity.

Inflection

Complex, class A II present, s preterite, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.	im·rádim, im·rádaim	imme·rádi (relative)	im·rádi	im·rádam		im·rádat	imme·ráither (relative)
	Prot.						·imradat
Imperfect indicative	Deut.						imme·ráidtis (relative)
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.						im·ráitset
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.	imme·rordus (relative)		im·ruraid; imme·roraid (relative); im·rordai			im·rordaisset	im·rordad
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.			imme·ráda (relative)			imma·rádat (relative)
	Prot.			·imrada
Past subjunctive	Deut.	imme·rádin (relative)		im·rádad
	Prot.
Imperative					imráidem
Verbal noun		imrádud; imrád
Past participle
Verbal of necessity		imrati

Mutation

Mutation of immráidi

radical	lenition	nasalization
imm·ráidi also imm·rráidi	imm·ráidi pronounced with /-r(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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), “imm·ráidi”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, pages 591–92