immréid

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• im·rét

Etymology

From imm- +‎ réidid.

Verb

imm·réid (verbal noun imrimm)

1. to ride around
   • c. 700 Immram Brain, published in The Voyage of Bran son of Febal to the land of the living (1895, London: David Nutt), pp. 1-35, edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer and Alfred Nutt, stanza 33

     Is mag scothach imma·réid.

     It is a flowery plain on which he rides about.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.			imm·réid; im·rét			im·ríadat
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun		imrimm
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of immréid

radical	lenition	nasalization
imm·réid also imm·rréid	imm·réid 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-réid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language