claidid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kladeti. Cognate with Welsh claddu (“bury”) and Breton klazañ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkla.ðʲəðʲ/
  • (Blasse) [ˈkla.ðʲɪðʲ]
  • (Griffith) [ˈkla.ðʲɨðʲ]

Verb

claidid (conjunct ·claid, verbal noun claide)

1. to dig
   • c. 760-800, Tairired na nDessi from Rawlinson B 502; published in "The Expulsion of the Dessi", Y Cymmrodor (1901, Society of Cymmrodorion), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, vol. 14, pp. 104-135 , paragraph 3:

     Is desin ro·gníd Ocheill for Temraig sechtair .i. clasa[e] ráth la Cormac, conid inte no·foihed-som do grés, ar ni ba hada rí co n-anim do feis i Temraig.

     Hence Achaill was built by the side of Tara, that is to say a ringfort was dug by Cormac in which he would always sleep, as it was not lawful for a king with a blemish to sleep in Tara.

Conjugation

Simple, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, s future, s subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	abs.						cladait	cladair
	conj.			·claid			·cladat	·claiter
	rel.			claides
imperfect indicative				·claided			·claitis	·claite
preterite	abs.							classae
	conj.			·cechlaid			·cechladatar	·class	·classa
	rel.
perfect	deut.						ro·cechladatar
	prot.			·roíchlaid
future	abs.
	conj.	·cichlus
	rel.
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.		·cláis				·clássat
	rel.
past subjunctive		·clássainn						·clástae
imperative
verbal noun		claide
past participle		claisse
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• ad·claid
• con·claid
• do·claid
• fo·claid

Related terms

• clad (“trench, ditch”)

Descendants

• Irish: claidh
• Manx: cleigh
• Scottish Gaelic: cladhaich

Mutation

Mutation of claidid

radical	lenition	nasalization
claidid	chlaidid	claidid pronounced with /ɡ-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 claidid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language