rath

See also: Rath, ráth, räth, -rath, and -raþ

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Irish ráth.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɹɑːθ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɹæθ/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːθ, Rhymes: -æθ
  • Homophone: wrath (some dialects)

Noun

rath (plural raths)

  1. (historical) A walled enclosure, especially in Ireland; a ringfort built sometime between the Iron Age and the Viking Age.
    • 1907, James Woods, Annals of Westmeath, Ancient and Modern:
      There are numerous Danish raths in the parish.
    • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 1, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
      Those with Celtic legendry in their heritage—mainly the Scotch-Irish element of New Hampshire, and their kindred who had settled in Vermont on Governor Wentworth’s colonial grants—linked them vaguely with the malign fairies and “little people” of the bogs and raths, and protected themselves with scraps of incantation handed down through many generations.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Hindi रथ (rath), from Sanskrit रथ (ratha).

Noun

rath (plural raths)

  1. A Burmese carriage of state.

Adjective

rath (comparative more rath, superlative most rath)

  1. Alternative form of rathe.

Anagrams

Cornish

Noun

rath f (plural rathes)

  1. rat

Synonyms

German

Verb

rath

  1. singular imperative of rathen

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish rath (“grace, virtue”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *ɸratom (“grace, virtue, good fortune”),[2] from the root of *ɸarnati (“bestow”) (whence Old Irish ernaid, from Proto-Indo-European *perh₃- (“bestow, give”) (whence also Sanskrit पृणाक्ति (pṛṇā́kti, “grant, bestow”), Latin parō (“prepare”)).[3]

Pronunciation

Noun

rath m (genitive singular ratha)

  1. (literary) bestowal, grant; grace, favour; gift, bounty
  2. prosperity
  3. abundance
  4. usefulness, good

Declension
Declension of rath

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative rath
Vocative a rath
Genitive ratha
Dative rath

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an rath
Genitive an ratha
Dative leis an rath

don rath

Derived terms

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 rath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “frato-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 140
  3. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “far-na-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 122
  4. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 106, page 58

Further reading
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “raṫ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 560
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “rath”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • Entries containing “rath” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *raþ, from Proto-Germanic *raþą (“wheel”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /rɑθ/

Noun

rath n

  1. wheel

Declension
Declension of rath (neuter a-stem)
singular plural
nominative rath rathu
accusative rath rathu
genitive rathes rathō
dative rathe rathum
instrumental — —


This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.