abraid

• IPA^(key): /əˈbɹeɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

From Middle English abraiden, abreiden (“to start up, awake, move, reproach”), from Old English ābreġdan (“to move quickly, vibrate, draw, draw from, remove, unsheath, wrench, pull out, withdraw, take away, draw back, free from, draw up, raise, lift up, start up”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + *bregdaną (“to move, swing”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrēḱ-, *bʰrēǵ- (“to shine”), equivalent to a- +‎ braid. Related to Dutch breien (“to knit”), German bretten (“to knit”).

• abray

abraid (third-person singular simple present abraids, present participle abraiding, simple past and past participle abraided or abraid)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To wrench (something) out. [10^th-13^thc.]
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To wake up. [11^th-18^thc.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: Printed [by Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 932900760, book IV, canto 6, page 90:

     But when as I did out of ſleepe abray, / I found her not where I her left whyleare, […]

   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, l:

     But from his study he at last abray'd, / Call'd by the hermit old […]

3. (intransitive, archaic) To spring, start, make a sudden movement. [from 11^thc.]
4. (intransitive, transitive, obsolete) To shout out. [15^th-16^thc.]
5. (transitive, obsolete) To rise in the stomach with nausea. [16^th-19^thc.]

• abray

From Middle English abrede. More at abread.

abraid (comparative more abraid, superlative most abraid)

1. Alternative form of abread

• The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition

• Arabid, rabadi

• IPA^(key): /ˈabˠɾˠədʲ/

abraid

1. (archaic, Munster) inflection of abair:
   1. third-person plural present indicative dependent
   2. third-person plural present subjunctive

The standard modern form is deir siad in the indicative and go ndeire siad in the subjunctive.