sluicid

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *slunketi.

Verb

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sluicid (verbal noun slocud)

  1. to swallow
    • 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. 22b1
      amal sluces a n-adnacul n-ersoilcthe ní téte ind ⁊ du·tét bréntu as
      as the open sepulcher swallows whatever goes into it, which comes out of it as a stench
    • c. 895–901, Vita tripartita Sancti Patricii, published in Bethu Phátraic: The tripartite life of Patrick (1939, Hodges, Figgis), edited and with translations by Kathleen Mulchrone, line 1013
      ...ro·lluicc in talam inna dí arracht déacc aili co n-icci a cinnu,
      The earth swallowed the twelve other idols up to their heads...

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Irish: slog, sloig
    • Yola: slug

References

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