ráidid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *rādīti (compare Welsh (ad)rodd), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ- (“to arrange”) (compare Sanskrit राध्नोति (rādhnoti), राध्यति (rādhyati, “to perform successfully”), Old Church Slavonic радити (raditi, “to take care of, work”), Gothic 𐍂𐍉𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (rōdjan, “to talk”), Lithuanian rodýti (“to show”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈr͈aːð(ʲ)iðʲ/

Verb

ráidid

1. to speak, to say, to tell

Inflection

Simple, class A II present, s preterite

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Abs.			radid (ráti with suffixed pronoun -i)			*radit
	Conj.	·ráidiu	·rádi	·rádi			·radat
	Rel.			radas
Imperfect indicative		·radin
Preterite	Abs.			*ráidis
	Conj.
	Rel.
Perfect	Deut.	ru·rádus	ro·rádis	ru·rádi	ro·ráitsem
	Prot.
Future	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.
Conditional
Present subjunctive	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.
Past subjunctive
Imperative			ráid
Verbal noun		rád
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• imm·ráidi

Descendants

• Scottish Gaelic: ràdh
• Irish: rá

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ráidid also rráidid after a proclitic	ráidid pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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