oirid

Middle Irish

Etymology

Perhaps a contamination of ailid (“to suit”) with foirid (“to help”).

Verb

oirid

1. to suit, correspond to (often with do)

Mutation

Mutation of oirid

radical	lenition	nasalization
oirid	unchanged	n-oirid

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Middle 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), “oirid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language