Old Irish

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Etymology

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From sáeb (crooked, twisted).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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sáebaid

  1. to pervert
    • 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. 24d24
      Ro·légsat canóin f⟨e⟩tarlaici ⁊ núḟíadnissi amal runda·légsam-ni, acht ronda·saíbset-som tantum.
      They have read the canon of the Old Testament and of the New Testament as we have read it, except only that they have perverted it.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Irish: saobh

Mutation

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

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