company, vicinity, Middle Gaelic na warri (Dean of Lismore), Irish farradh, Early Irish farrad, i fharrad, near, Old Irish in arrad; from ar-sod-, "by-seat", root sod, sed, sit, as in suidhe. Hence Irish compound prep. a bh-farradh; and from the same source comes the Gaelic mar ri, q.v.
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language.
Alexander Gairm Publications.
1982.