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===== I don’t have tool access right now to check the historical dictionaries, and I don’t trust my memory enough to assert a specific origin (e.g. from English, Scots, or an older Celtic root) without verification. =====

What I can say safely:
* It’s not transparently analyzable in modern Irish as a compound of productive pieces; it behaves as a simple inherited/loan noun.
* Scottish Gaelic also has anraith “soup”, so it clearly belongs to the shared Goidelic layer (exact direction of borrowing between Irish/Scottish, if any, I can’t safely specify from memory alone).
* There’s no clear direct cognate in Latin or the major Germanic languages that would pop out at you the way úll ~ apple does; if there is an IE root connection, it’s not obvious from form alone.

So: treat anraith as an old Goidelic word for “soup/broth” whose deeper etymology I’d want to look up in eDIL / etymological dictionaries before saying more.