-rad

See also: rad

Old Irish

Suffix

-rad f

Forms collective nouns from nouns or adjectives.
marc (“horse”) → marcrad (“cavalry”)

glas (“green”) → glasrad (“greenery”)

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

► <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Old_Irish_words_suffixed_with_-rad'>Old Irish words suffixed with -rad</a>

Descendants

Irish: -ra
Manx: -rey
Scottish Gaelic: -radh

References

Rudolf Thurneysen, A Grammar of Old Irish (Dublin, 1946), §§263f

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