indred

Old Irish

Noun

indred n (genitive indrid, nominative plural indreda)

1. verbal noun of in·reith:
   1. incursion, invasion, attack
      • 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. 27^a1

        ind indrid naimtidi

        of the hostile incursion

      • 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. 66^c19

        .i. in mór-indrid ara·robert Deichthriub 7 áis Siriæ

        i.e. of the great incursion that the Ten Tribes and Syrians devised

      • c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 90, pages 115-179:

        […] cobair fo·reissed má do·berthe inruth no·cobrafad & do·berar, iarnasa indruth nad cobradar.

        […] help which would render aid if an attack should be made, and there is [made] an attack which it does not help [against, because it arrived too late].

   2. devastation

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	indredN	indredN	indredL, indreda
Vocative	indredN	indredN	indredL, indreda
Accusative	indredN	indredN	indredL, indreda
Genitive	indridL	indred	indredN
Dative	indriudL	indredaib	indredaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: inred
  • Irish: ionradh

Mutation

Mutation of indred

radical	lenition	nasalization
indred (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-indred

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), “indred”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language