roithid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *rotīti. Causative of reithid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈr͈oθʲiðʲ]

Verb

roithid (verbal noun roithiud)

1. to make run, to set in motion

Inflection

Simple, class A II present, f future, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.			roithes
Imperfect indicative
Preterite	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Abs.								roithfiter
	Conj.
	Rel.
Conditional
Present subjunctive	Abs.							rothetar
	Conj.
	Rel.
Past subjunctive
Imperative
Verbal noun		roithiud
Past participle		roitte
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of roithid

radical	lenition	nasalization
roithid also rroithid after a proclitic ending in a vowel	roithid pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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