airid

See also: áirid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *aryeti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ér-ye-ti. Cognate with Welsh aredig.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈarʲiðʲ/

Verb

airid (conjunct ·air)

  1. to plough/plow, to till

Inflection

Descendants

  • Irish: air (literary)

References

  1. Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) “*ar-i̯e/o-”, in Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, pages 135, 204f.

Further reading

  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “airid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • Lewis, Henry, Pedersen, Holger (1989) A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 337
  • Vendryes, Joseph (1959) “ar-”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume A, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page A-81
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