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pridchaid

pridchaid

Old Irish

Verb

pridchaid (verbal noun precept)

  1. to preach
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 27c22
      Is airi am cimbid-se hóre no·pridchim in rúin sin.
      It is for that reason that I am a captive, because I preach that mystery.

Conjugation

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
pridchaid phridchaid pridchaid
pronounced with /b(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • pridchaid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.