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airid

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See also: áirid

Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *aryeti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ér-ye-ti. Cognate with Welsh aredig.[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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airid (conjunct ·air, verbal noun ar)

  1. to plough/plow, to till

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Irish: air (literary)

References

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  1. ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) “*ar-i̯e/o-”, in Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, pages 135, 204f.

Further reading

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  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • Lewis, Henry, Pedersen, Holger (1989) A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 337
  • Vendryes, Joseph (1959) “ar-”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume A, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page A-81