snaid

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish snáthat, from Old Irish snáthat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snɛːdʲ/

Noun

snaid f (genitive singular snaidey, plural snaidyn)

1. needle
2. pointer, indicator

Mutation

Mutation of snaid

radical	lenition	eclipsis
snaid	naid after "yn", tnaid	unchanged

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

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *snāti, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂- (“to swim”).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

snaïd (verbal noun snám)

1. to swim
   • c. 800, Immacaldam Choluim Cille ⁊ ind óclaig, published in "The Lough Foyle Colloquy Texts: Immacaldam Choluim Chille 7 ind Óclaig oc Carraic Eolairg and Immacaldam in Druad Brain 7 Inna Banḟátho Febuil Ós Loch Ḟebuil", Ériu 52 (2002), pp. 53-87, edited and with translations by John Carey,

     "Cesc," ol Colum Cille, "cóich robo riam, a lloch-sa at·chiam?" Respondit iuvenis: "Ro·fetur-sa aní-sin; [...] ro·giult-sa a mbasa os, ro·senas a mbasa é[o] [MS re henaus indbasi hée]...

     "A question," said Colum Cille, "whose was it formerly, this loch we see?" The youth responded, "I know that! [...] I had grazed it when I was a stag, I had swum it when I was a salmon...

   • 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. 93^c1

     snaid ― (glosses Latin meat when it describes the flow of the Jordan River)

Inflection

Simple, class A III present, reduplicated s preterite

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	abs.			snaïd
	conj.
	rel.
imperfect indicative
preterite	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
perfect	deut.	re·henaus (misspelling of ra·senas, with infixed pronoun a-)
	prot.
future	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
past subjunctive
imperative
verbal noun		snám
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Middle Irish: snáid

Further reading

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