suide

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuðʲe/

Etymology 1

From the root of so (“this”); an extension of Proto-Celtic *so.

Alternative forms

• sude
• side, sede (enclitic)

Pronoun

suide (neuter sodain)

1. this
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 159^a2

     Air in tan no·labrither in cétni persin ƚ in tánaisi do·adbit ainm hi suidiu.

     For when you say the first person or the second, you show a noun in this.

   • 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. 102^a15

     Itius anúas ⁊ dus·claid anís; air ní foircnea in fíni hithe neich di anúas, amal du·ngní int aís sechmaill as·mbeir-som .i. air is cuit adaill ad·n-ellat sidi in fíni du thabairt neich doib dia thorud.

     They eat it from above and he roots it up from below; for it does not exterminate the vine to eat of anything of it from above, as do the passers-by whom he speaks of, i.e. for it is only a passing visit that they make [lit: ‘that they visit’] to the vine to take something for themselves of its fruit.

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 *sed-.

Noun

suide n

1. verbal noun of saidid
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

• 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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 suide (‘that’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 suide (‘seat’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, §§ 477–82, pages 301–4