sémigud

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsʲeːβ̃ʲiɣʲuð]

Noun

sémigud m

1. verbal noun of séimigidir (“to palliate”)
   • 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. 124^b3

     Ní du ṡémigud pectha at·ber-som inso .i. combad dó fa·cherred: “ní sní cetid·deirgni ⁊ ní sní dud·rigni nammá”; acht is do chuingid dílguda dosom, amal du·rolged dïa aithrib íar n-immarmus.

     It is not to palliate sin that he says this, i.e. so that he might put it for this: “we have not done it first and we have not done it only”; but it is to seek forgiveness for himself, as his fathers had been forgiven after sinning.

Descendants

• Middle Irish: séimiugud
  • Irish: séimhiú
  • Scottish Gaelic: sèimheachadh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
sémigud	ṡémigud	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), “séimigud or dil.ie/36927”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language