suide

See also: Suide

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsuðʲe]

Etymology 1

From the root of so (“this”); an extension of Proto-Celtic *so, specifically via an extension *so-de-sos.

Alternative forms

• sude
• side, sede (enclitic)

Pronoun

suide (neuter sodain)

1. this
2. the latter

For quotations using this term, see Citations:suide.

Declension

suide, sodain; side, són
	Masculine singular		Feminine singular		Neuter singular
	Stressed	Unstressed	Stressed	Unstressed	Stressed	Unstressed
Nominative	su(i)de	side	su(i)de	(a)de	sod(a)in	(s)ón
Accusative			su(i)di	sidi
Genitive	—	sidi, adi	—	side	—	sidi, adi
Dative	su(i)diu	—	su(i)di	—	su(i)diu	—
Plural	Masculine		Feminine/neuter
	Stressed	Unstressed	Stressed		Unstressed
Nominative	su(i)di	sidi, (a)di	su(i)di		sidi, (a)di
Accusative	su(i)diu
Genitive	—	ade	—	ade	—	ade
Dative	su(i)dib	—	su(i)dib	—	su(i)dib	—

Derived terms

• amal ṡodin

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *sodyom (compare Welsh sedd), from Proto-Indo-European *sodyom (compare Latin solium (“seat, chair”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”).

Noun

suide n

1. verbal noun of saidid
   • 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. 13^a12

     Má beid ní di rúnaib do·théi ar menmuin ind ḟir bíis inna ṡuidiu et ad·reig.

     If there are any of the mysteries that may come upon the mind of the man who is sitting, and he rises.

     (literally, “who is in his sitting”)

2. seat

Inflection

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	suideN	suideL	suideL
Vocative	suideN	suideL	suideL
Accusative	suideN	suideL	suideL
Genitive	suidiL	suideL	suideN
Dative	suidiuL	suidib	suidib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• airide
• airnaide
• impuide
• indnaide
• suidigidir

 

Descendants

• Irish: suí
• Scottish Gaelic: suidhe

Mutation

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

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 suide (‘that’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 suide (‘seat’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, §§ 477–82, pages 301–4