sochuide

Old Irish[edit]

Thurneysen derives this from so- (“good”) +‎ cuit (“portion”) +‎ -e.^[1] However, the /ð/ poses phonological difficulties.

sochuide f (genitive sochuide)

many, multitude, crowd
- 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. 107^a15
  Bid sochaide atrefea indiuts{i}u ⁊ bid fáilid nach oín adid·trefea.
  There will be many who will dwell in thee, and every one will be joyful who will so dwell.
  (literally, “…who will dwell it”)

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	sochuide^L	—	—
Vocative	sochuide^L	—	—
Accusative	sochuidi^N	—	—
Genitive	sochuide	—	—
Dative	sochuidi^L	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
sochuide	ṡochuide	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 1224
^ Hickey, Raymond (2012) “Internally- and Externally-Motivated Language Change”, in Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre, Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy, editors, The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, pages 387–408