inreith

Old Irish

Etymology

From ind- + reithid.

Verb

in·reith (verbal noun indred)

  1. to lay waste
  2. to overrun, invade
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 35a21
      dunaib huilib indirsib .i. inrorthatar fo chosmaili(i)us Assar.
      to all those overrun, i.e. they invaded after the fashion of the Assyrians.

Inflection

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
in·reith
also in·rreith
in·reith
pronounced with /-r(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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