seichid
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Old Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Celtic *sekʷeti (“to say”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
seichid
- to assert, declare
- c. 700 the Irish Infancy Gospel of Thomas, published in "Two Old Irish Poems", in Ériu 18 (1958), pp. 1-27, edited and with translations by James Carney, stanza 22
- Sích in suí Sacharias: "Amrae mac in-so,
má for·cantae bed amrae fri sodain dano."- The sage Zacharias said: This is a wonderful boy; if he was taught [at school], he would be yet more wonderful.
- c. 760 Blathmac mac Con Brettan, published in "A study of the lexicon of the poems of Blathmac Son of Cú Brettan" (2017; PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth), edited and with translations by Siobhán Barrett, stanza 224
- Ro·sích bréithir nádbu balb...
- He has spoken a word that was not stammering...
- c. 700 the Irish Infancy Gospel of Thomas, published in "Two Old Irish Poems", in Ériu 18 (1958), pp. 1-27, edited and with translations by James Carney, stanza 22
Inflection[edit]
Simple, class B I present, reduplicated preterite
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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| Present indicative | Abs. | seghait (sic) | |||||||
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| Preterite | Abs. | sích | |||||||
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| Rel. | síche | ||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | ro·sích | |||||||
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Derived terms[edit]
Several derivatives of this strong verb are weak verbs.
References[edit]
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*sekʷ-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 328
Further reading[edit]
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “seichid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sekʷ- (say)
- Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish verbs
- Old Irish terms with quotations
- Old Irish simple verbs
- Old Irish class B I present verbs
- Old Irish reduplicated preterite verbs