snaid

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Manx

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish snáthat, from Old Irish snáthat.

Noun

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snaid f (genitive singular snaidey, plural snaidyn)

  1. needle
  2. pointer, indicator

Mutation

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Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
snaid naid
after "yn", tnaid
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Verb

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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

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Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: snáid

References

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

Further reading

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