maraid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mareti, from Proto-Indo-European *merh₂-

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.rəðʲ/

Verb

maraid (conjunct ·mair, verbal noun marthain)

1. to last, persist, remain
   • c. 775, “Táin Bó Fraích”, in Book of Leinster; republished as Ernst Windisch, editor, Táin bó Fraích, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1974, line 263:

     "A ingen", ol Ailill, "ind ordnasc doratus-[s]a duit-siu in uraid, in mair latt? Tuc dam conda·accatar ind óic. Rot·bia-su íarum."

     "My daughter [Findabair]", said Ailill, "the ring I gave you last year, does it still remain on you? Bring it to me so that the warriors can see it. You can have it back afterwards."

2. to survive, live

Inflection

Simple, class B I present, é future, a subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	abs.			maraith			marait
	conj.			·mair
	rel.
imperfect indicative
preterite	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	abs.			méraid			mérait
	conj.
	rel.
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.			·marathar
	rel.
past subjunctive
imperative				maired
verbal noun
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Irish: mair
• Scottish Gaelic: mair

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “maraid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language