sráit

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse stræti or Old English strǣt, from Proto-West Germanic *strātu, from Late Latin strāta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sraːdʲ/

Noun

sráit f

1. street, road, path, way

Inflection

Feminine ī-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	sráitL	sráitL	sráitiH
Vocative	sráitL	sráitL	sráitiH
Accusative	sráitiN	sráitL	sráitiH
Genitive	sráiteH	sráiteL	sráiteN
Dative	sráitiL	sráitib	sráitib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: sráid
• Manx: straid
• Scottish Gaelic: sràid

Mutation

Mutation of sráit

radical	lenition	nasalization
sráit	ṡráit	unchanged

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

References

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