druí
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druí
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2013
Forms:
druï, draí, dro, drúid, drái, druäd, druïd, dráid, drui, druïd, drui, druith, drúith, druïd, druid, draid, druíde, draíde, draigthe, drúide, druäd, druïdib, drudib, draídib, drúide, drúdi, draoi, draoithe, ndruadh, ndraoithe, druadha, draoithe, draí, drúad, druad, draoi, drúth, drúithib, Druith, druad, Druadh, Druaidh
n
d, m. Orig.
druï
, and disyll. in early poetry, cf.
SR 3849
,
3858
. See
GOI 43
,
ZCP xi 276
, O'Brien,
Ériu xi
169
. Later draí.
dro,
Celt. Rev. iv 112.22
.
drúid,
IT i 129.31
(Eg.);
Lat. Lives 9.1
;
PH 1728
,
1737
. v
s.
drái,
PH 1811
.
g
s. druäd (druad). d
s. druïd (druíd).
don dráid
,
PH 2122
.
dia
drui
,
IT i 129.27
. a
s. druïd (druíd).
drui
,
IT i 129.17
.
n
du.
da druith
,
Wb. 30c17
.
in da drúith
,
Ériu iii 140.185
.
n
p. druïd (druíd).
in druid
,
SR 8339
.
draid,
PH 7059
. Later
druíde (
drúidi,
TBC-LL¹ 4545
), draíde.
draigthe,
Ériu iii 160 § 13
(B. of Fermoy). v
p.
drúide,
TBC-LL¹ 596
. g
p. druäd (druad).
d
p. druïdib (druídib).
drudib,
LU 3452
(
SCC § 23
). draídib.
a
p. drúide;
drúdi,
LU 4026
(
SCC § 48
). In later lang. draoi, pl.
draoithe; the older forms, esp. gs. and gp., persist in poetry
and are oft. used in juxtaposition with the later, apparently
without difference of meaning:
na ndruadh . . . na ndraoithe
,
Keat. Poems 798
,
800
;
druadha ┐ draoithe
,
O'Rah. xx 5
(1911)
. draí m.,
IGT Decl. § 85
.
(a) In older lit. usually in techn. sense
druid:
Cathbad d.¤
,
TBC-LL¹ 1070
.
Cathbadh caomhdhraoi,
5489
(St.).
co ndigsed
d'acallaim a druad d'iarfaigid fessa ┐ fástini de,
191
.
drúidi ┐
fádi ┐ fissidi fer nErend,
4545
.
geis don ríg labrad rena
druidib,
4725
(cf.
TBC-I¹ 2989
,
MU² 235
).
Mainchenn druid do
Brettnuib,
IT iii 240.156
. breitemain ┐ druid (classed as
`daernemed' persons),
Laws v 90.20
, with gloss
.i. doniat in
feth fia no in [ḟ]aisdinecht,
27
.
a druid fri Lóegaire tichtu
Phatraic ní ceiltis,
Hy. ii 21
.
amail rusgellsad draide ┐
degfāidi,
RC xiii 222.10
.
rotecht druidhe ┐ tinchitlidi
doairchaintis trena ndruidecht,
Lat. Lives 2.4
.
fri brichtu
ban ┐ gobann ┐ druad,
Hy. vii 54
(
Thes. ii 357
).
tri druid
Dagda,
Ériu vii 221.5
.
draoi ré hiodhbarta do dhéanamh ┐ ré
tuar maitheasa nó uilc don chrích,
Keat. ii 5332
(in Christian
times replaced by an `anmchara',
5345
). Distinguished from
`corrguinigh',
RC xii 90
(the latter bewitched the bodily
functions of the hostile warriors, the `druíd' induced natural
phenomena). They appear among the damned on Doomsday,
SR 8339
. Attrib. g
s. and g
p.: do thonach drúad-su thy druid's
tunic,
Trip.² 586
.
gaeth druad
,
Lec. 28b6
;
Leb. Gab.(i) 256.4
.
erbe druad,
AU 560
(see 1 airbe). bandrúi
druidess: Bais bandruadh
(one of the `aés síde'),
ZCP viii 104.23
.
tri ferdruid ┐ tri
bandrúid,
TBC-LL¹ 2402
=
di (leg. tri) drúid ┐ a teóra mná,
TBC-I¹
1767
(LU).
bandrai ┐ bancumachtach mē,
ZCP xii 252.14
.
(b)
magician, wizard or diviner
in general, oft. used of
equivalent of the druid in non-Celtic peoples. In religious lit.
d.¤ corresponds to Lat. magus: dogéna sáibfirtu . . . amal
dondrigensat druid triitsom (of Antichrist),
Wb. 26a20
.
ticdis a ndrúide ┐ a n-óga coisecartha (of heathens),
PH 335
.
soebforcetul Simóin in druad,
1736
.
drai Cruithnech,
Lec.
31a7
. seisear demnach druadh (of Picts),
Todd Nenn. 144
.
da druith aegeptacdi,
Wb. 30c17
, cf.
SR 3849
.
na druidhe
egeptaca,
Laws i 20.21 Comm.
na dráide Indecdai (of the
Magi),
PH 2838
, cf.
6931
,
7050
.
in rétla resna drūithibh | o
hiart[h]ur domain,
ZCP v 25 § 13
;
Ériu ii 198.20
;
TSh. 7683
.
draide farsaide `
magicians of the Pharisees' (rather doctors,
wise men
),
PH 2256
.
faidhis Cublay a draidhe uadha dia fhis
in soinmigi no doinmhigi nobhiath dó,
Marco P. 58
. Applied
by heathens to Christian thaumaturgists:
no démnigitís co
mba drái Petar,
PH 1738
. rocreit don dráid robris ar n-ídlu
(of Bartholomew),
2122
. ? In cheville:
derb druad,
SR 6777
.
In good sense:
is e mo drai Crist mac De,
Misc. Arch. Soc. i
6.2
.
is é mo drái ní méra | mac Dé,
SG 79.24
. draoi a charmer
,
Eg. Gl. 369
. guth na ndruagh the voice of the charmers,
Psalms
lviii 5
. Transf. of a wren (?):
drúi donn,
K. and H. 26
(for
the wren's association with divination see dreän).
Somet. confused with drúth
jester:
tánic in drúth . . . i
n-uch[t] in druad,
ZCP iii 218 § 37
. Cf.
Metr. Dinds. i 26.178
,
where drúithib is coupled with furseoirib in some MSS.;
ZCP iii 262.30
:
a tri druid (drude,
LU 10547
) dēnmo glām
ngēr (leg. druith ?);
xiii 350
where gen.
Druith Cosalaig,
l 3
=
in druad
,
1.5
.
(c) In mod. lit. esp. poetry usually
poet, learned man:
primh-drūith ┐ primh-ollamh Connacht,
AFM 1067
.
Néidhe
draoi,
Keat. Poems 116
.
grianán dáimhe is draoithe,
1483
;
cf.
757
.
Ériu iv 56.62
,
Content. xxv 6
,
O'Rah. xx 5
,
Hackett xix 26
.
As n.pr. m. g
s.
mic Druadh
,
ITS xv 45.18
=
m. Druaidh
[Druagh, v.l.],
22.30
. In n.loc.:
bellum Ratho in druadh,
AU 595
. ?
tri Duib Druad,
TBC-I¹ 3512
.
Compd.
druaghfhile,
3 C 13, 597.14
. fo-ceird in druígoba[e] hUilc hAiche cóic cresa imdegla[e] fair 'the druid-smith'
The Heroic Biography of Cormac mac Airt 121.56
.