adrad

Middle English

Adjective

adrad

  1. Full of dread or fear; afraid.
    • 1387–1400, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, Line 607:
      They were adrad of him as of death.

See also

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for adrad in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adōrātiō, assimilated to the suffix -ad.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaðrað/

Noun

adrad m (genitive adartho)

  1. verbal noun of ad·or
  2. worship

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
adrad unchanged n-adrad
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • “1 adrad” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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