ruiri

Old Irish

Etymology

A compound involving rí (“king”).

Noun

ruiri m (genitive ruirech, nominative plural ruirig)

1. king

Inflection

Masculine g-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	ruiri	ruirigL	ruirig
vocative	ruiri	ruirigL	ruirecha
accusative	ruirigN	ruirigL	ruirecha
genitive	ruirech	ruirech	ruirechN
dative	ruirigL	ruirechaib	ruirechaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Related terms

• rí

Mutation

Mutation of ruiri

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