saichdetu

Old Irish

Etymology

From saigid +‎ -tu.

Noun

saichdetu m (genitive saichdetath)

1. act of striving after/towards
   • 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. 214^b1

     Amal rond·gab saichdetu dochum,

     Like there is a striving towards a place [in adverbs],

Inflection

Masculine t-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	saichdetu	saichdetaithL, saichdetu	saichdetaith
Vocative	saichdetu	saichdetaithL, saichdetu	saichdetatha
Accusative	saichdetaithN	saichdetaithL, saichdetu	saichdetatha
Genitive	saichdetath	saichdetath	saichdetathN
Dative	saichdetaithL	saichdetathaib	saichdetathaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

References

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