fríd

• IPA^(key): /fʲɾʲiːdʲ/

From earlier frighid, originally the dative singular of frigh, from Middle Irish frige.

fríd f (genitive singular fríde, nominative plural frídí or frídeacha)

1. fleshworm, mite

• Alternative plural form: frídeacha

• frigh (archaic)

• frídeog

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “frige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “friġ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 334
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fríd”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “fríd” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “fríd” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

From a conflation of fri and trí, of which the form before the definite article is tríd.

fríd (plus dative, triggers no mutation)

1. Ulster form of trí (“through”)

fríd (emphatic frídsean)

1. third-person singular masculine of fríd (“through”)

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “frí”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 334
• Ó Baoill, Dónall P. (1996) An Teanga Bheo: Gaeilge Uladh (in Irish), Dublin: Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann, →ISBN, pages 92, 96, 152
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fríd”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 67