sceid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *skeyeti, from Proto-Indo-European *skey-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʲkʲe.əðʲ/
  • (Blasse) [ˈsʲkʲe.ɪðʲ]
  • (Griffith) [ˈsʲkʲe.ɨðʲ]

Verb

sceïd (conjunct ·scé, verbal noun sceith)

1. to vomit
2. to spew

Conjugation

Simple, class A III present, s preterite

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	abs.			sceïd
	conj.			·scé
	rel.			sceas
imperfect indicative				·scead
preterite	abs.
	conj.			·scé
	rel.
perfect	deut.			ro·scé
	prot.
future	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
past subjunctive
imperative
verbal noun		sceith
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• scethach (“nauseating”)
  • → Old Norse: skjaðak
    • >? Norwegian Nynorsk: skjæraks
    • Swedish: skäde

Descendants

• ⇒ Middle Irish: sceithid (denominal from verbal noun)
  • Irish: sceith
  • Scottish Gaelic: sgeith

Further reading

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