réidid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *reideti, cognate to Proto-Germanic *rīdaną.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈr͈ʲeːðʲiðʲ]

Verb

réidid (conjunct ·réid, verbal noun réimm or ríad)

1. to ride, drive

Inflection

Simple, class B I present, reduplicated preterite

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	abs.						*ríadait
	conj.			·réid		·réidid	·ríadat
	rel.			rédes				ríadar
imperfect indicative				·réided
preterite	abs.						rerdatar
	conj.
	rel.
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
past subjunctive
imperative
verbal noun		réimm; ríad
past participle
verbal of necessity

Quotations

• c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, published in Táin Bó Cúailnge. Recension I (1976, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Cecile O'Rahilly, TBC-I 684

  Ocus is bés dúib-si far n-Ultaib ní réidid tar églinde. Airc-siu do Emain aridisi, a phopa Conaill, ⁊ rom·léic-se [sic, leg. nom·léic-se] sund oc forairi.

  And it is the custom with you Ulstermen that you do not drive on in an unsafe [chariot]. Go back to Emain, master Conall, and leave me here to keep watch.

• c. 886, Epistil Ísu, published in "Cáin Domnaig", Ériu Vol. 2 (1905), pp. 189-214, edited and with translations by J. G. O'Keeffe, §9

  Nach ech ríadar isin domnach, is ech tened bís i ngabul a marcaig a n-iffirn.

  Whatever horse is ridden on Sunday, it is a horse of fire that is between the thighs of its rider in Hell.

Derived terms

• do·rét
• imm·réid

Descendants

• Middle Irish: réidid

References

1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*rēd-o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 307

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 réidid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language