sligid

See also: sligið

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sligeti, from Proto-Indo-European *sleyǵ- (“to smear”).[1]

Verb

sligid (conjunct ·slig, verbal noun slige)

  1. to clear out
    • c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, published in Táin Bó Cúailnge. Recension I (1976, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Cecile O'Rahilly, TBC-I
      "Silsimi-ni in fid." Do·gníther dano aní-sin, conid (sed) ainm in puirt-sin Slechta.
      "We shall cut down the wood." It was done, and Slechta [literally "Cleared"] is the name of that place.
  2. to slaughter, slay
    • 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. 48d28
      Is de ro·gab Duaid in salm: […] dindí nad·rochoilset ind Assair tempul huare ro·slechta tri chumacht[e] nDǽ.
      It is for this that David sang the psalm: […] for the fact that the Assyrians had not defiled the Temple, since they were cut down through the power of God.
    • c. 875, Comrac Líadaine ocus Cuirithir, published in Liadain and Curithir: an Irish love-story of the ninth century (1902, London: Nutt), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, page 20
      Not·selo[s]-sæ dia cela.
      I'll kill you if you hide anything.

Inflection

Simple, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, s future
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative abs.
conj.
rel.
imperfect indicative
preterite abs. selaig slechtae
conj.
rel.
perfect deut. ro·selgatar ro·slechta
prot.
future abs. silsa silis silsimi silsiter
conj. ·selos
rel.
conditional
present subjunctive abs.
conj.
rel.
past subjunctive
imperative slig
verbal noun slige
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

  • ad·slig
  • ar·slig
  • fo·slig
  • sleg (“spear”)
    • Irish: sleá
    • Scottish Gaelic: sleagh
    • Manx: shleiy

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*slig-o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 346

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