-rad

See also: rad

Old Irish

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hret-. Cognate with Welsh -red.

Suffix

-rad f

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

glas (“green”) → glasrad (“greenery”)

Inflection

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Derived terms

Old Irish terms suffixed with -rad

Descendants

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

References

Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003), D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, §§ 263f

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