insnaid

Old Irish

Etymology

From in- +‎ Proto-Celtic *snadeti (to hew, carve).

Verb

in·snaid (verbal noun esnaid)

  1. to insert
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 118d20
      It he inna gnúsi in·snadat dunni int sonartae [leg. in sonartai] inna múr do·forsailced hi lluaithred do accobur a athchumtaig iterum.
      It is the appearances which put in our mind the strength of the walls which had been [dis]solved into ashes, [for us] to desire to rebuild it again.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, s subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut. in·snadat
prot.
imperfect indicative deut.
prot.
preterite deut.
prot.
perfect deut.
prot.
future deut.
prot.
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut. atom·snassar (with infixed pronoun dom-)
prot.
past subjunctive deut. in·snastis
prot.
imperative
verbal noun esnaid
past participle esnaisse
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of in·snaid
radical lenition nasalization
in·snaid in·ṡnaid in·snaid

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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