ráidid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *rādīti (compare Welsh (ad)rodd), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ- (“to arrange”) (compare Sanskrit राध्नोति (rādhnoti), राध्यति (rādhyati, “to perform successfully”), Old Church Slavonic радити (raditi, “to take care of, work”), Gothic 𐍂𐍉𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (rōdjan, “to talk”), Lithuanian rodýti (“to show”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈr͈aːð(ʲ)iðʲ/

Verb

ráidid (verbal noun rád)

1. to speak, to say, to tell

Inflection

Simple, class A II present, s preterite

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	abs.			radid (ráti with suffixed pronoun -i)			*radit
	conj.	·ráidiu	·rádi	·rádi			·radat
	rel.			radas
imperfect indicative		·radin
preterite	abs.			*ráidis
	conj.
	rel.
perfect	deut.	ru·rádus	ro·rádis	ru·rádi	ro·ráitsem
	prot.
future	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
past subjunctive
imperative			ráid
verbal noun		rád
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• imm·ráidi

Mutation

Mutation of ráidid

radical	lenition	nasalization
ráidid also rráidid after a proclitic ending in a vowel	ráidid 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), “ráidid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language