snaid

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish snáthat, from Old Irish snáthat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /snɛːdʲ/

Noun

snaid f (genitive singular snaidey, plural snaidyn)

  1. needle
  2. pointer, indicator

Mutation

Mutation of snaid
radical lenition eclipsis
snaid naid
after "yn", tnaid		 unchanged

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

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *snāti, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂- (“to swim”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsn͈a.əðʲ/

Verb

snaïd (verbal noun snám)

  1. to swim
    • c. 800, Immacaldam Choluim Cille ⁊ ind óclaig, published in "The Lough Foyle Colloquy Texts: Immacaldam Choluim Chille 7 ind Óclaig oc Carraic Eolairg and Immacaldam in Druad Brain 7 Inna Banḟátho Febuil Ós Loch Ḟebuil", Ériu 52 (2002), pp. 53-87, edited and with translations by John Carey,
      "Cesc," ol Colum Cille, "cóich robo riam, a lloch-sa at·chiam?" Respondit iuvenis: "Ro·fetur-sa aní-sin; [...] ro·giult-sa a mbasa os, ro·senas a mbasa é[o] [MS re henaus indbasi hée]...
      "A question," said Colum Cille, "whose was it formerly, this loch we see?" The youth responded, "I know that! [...] I had grazed it when I was a stag, I had swum it when I was a salmon...
    • 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. 93c1
      snaid ― (glosses Latin meat when it describes the flow of the Jordan River)

Inflection

Simple, class A III present, reduplicated s preterite
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative abs. snaïd
conj.
rel.
imperfect indicative
preterite abs.
conj.
rel.
perfect deut. re·henaus (misspelling of ra·senas, with infixed pronoun a-)
prot.
future abs.
conj.
rel.
conditional
present subjunctive abs.
conj.
rel.
past subjunctive
imperative
verbal noun snám
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: snáid

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*snā-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 348

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