# feraid
## Middle Irish
### Etymology

From Old Irish feraid, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to heed”).

### Verb

feraid (conjunct ·fera, verbal noun ferthain)
* to grant
* to supply, to provide
** c. 1000, “The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig”, in Ernst Windisch, editor, Irische Texte, volume 1, published 1800, section 1:Ro·ferad failte friu uile, ocus ructha chuci-sium isin mbruidin.They were all made welcome and brought to him in the hall.(literally, “A welcome was provided to them all…”)

#### Inflection

* Passive singular perfect deuterotonic: ro·ferad

#### Descendants

* Irish: fear (“to grant”)

### References

* ↑ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, pages 517–18

### Further reading

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

## Old Irish
### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *werāti. Perhaps from a root Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to turn”) related to *h₂werg-, *werp-, and *wert-. For the semantic development compare the development of Latin versō (“to turn”) to French verser (“to pour”).
Pedersen instead connects it a different Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to heed”), compare with German gewähren (“to grant, allow”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfʲeriðʲ/

### Verb

feraid (conjunct ·fera)
* to grant
    Synonyms: do·indnaig, ernaid
* to supply, to provide
    ferais fáilte fris ― welcomed him (literally, “provided a welcome to him”)
* to pour, to shower, to shed (precipitation)
    Synonym: do·fortai

#### Inflection

| | | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 3rd pl. |
| Present indicative | Abs. | | ferid | | |
| Present indicative | Conj. | ·ferai | ·fera | ·feram | ·ferat |
| Present indicative | Rel. | | | | |
| Imperfect indicative | Imperfect indicative | | | | |
| Preterite | Abs. | fersai | ferais | | |
| Preterite | Conj. | | ·fer | | |
| Preterite | Rel. | | | | |
| Perfect | Deut. | | ro·fer | | |
| Perfect | Prot. | | ·ruar | | |
| Future | Abs. | | | | |
| Future | Conj. | | | | |
| Future | Rel. | | | | |
| Conditional | Conditional | | | | |
| Present subjunctive | Abs. | | | | |
| Present subjunctive | Conj. | | ·roirea (ro-form) | | ·roíret (ro-form) |
| Present subjunctive | Rel. | | | | |
| Past subjunctive | Past subjunctive | | ·ferad | | |
| Imperative | Imperative | fer | | | |
| Verbal noun | Verbal noun | | | | |
| Past participle | Past participle | | | | |
| Verbal of necessity | Verbal of necessity | | | | |

#### Derived terms

* do·fera (“to cause”)
* fo·fera (“to prepare”)

#### Related terms

* adbar (“matter, material”)

#### Descendants

* Middle Irish: feraid
** Irish: fear (“to grant”)

### References

* ↑ Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) “fer-a- ‘shed, pour, give forth’”, in Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, 4.2.2., page 434ff.
* ↑ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, pages 517–18

### Further reading

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