saíthar

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Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *saitrom, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey-tro-m, from *sh₂ey- (to bind, fetter) +‎ *-trom.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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saíthar n (genitive saíthir, nominative plural saíthra)

  1. work, labour
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10c21
      Ba torad sa⟨í⟩thir dúun in chrud so ce du·melmis cech túari et ce du·gnemmis a ndu·gníat ar céli, act ní bad nertad na mbráithre et frescsiu fochricce as móo.
      It would be a fruit of labor for us in this way if we consumed every food and if we did what our fellows do, but it would not be a strengthening of the brothers and a hope of a greater reward.

Declension

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Neuter o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative saítharN, saíthor saítharN, saíthor saítharL, saíthra
Vocative saítharN, saíthor saítharN, saíthor saítharL, saíthra
Accusative saítharN, saíthor saítharN, saíthor saítharL, saíthra
Genitive saíthairL, saíthir saíthar, saíthor saítharN, saíthor
Dative saíthurL saíthraib saíthraib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: saethar

Mutation

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

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*saytro-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 325

Further reading

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