sóeraid
Old Irish
editAlternative forms
edit- sáeraid (late Old Irish)
Etymology
editPronunciation
editVerb
editsóeraid (prototonic ·sóera, verbal noun sóerad)
- to free, liberate
- to save, rescue, deliver
- 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. 90c19
- Ní fetar indam·ṡoírfad Día fa nacc.
- I do not know whether God would deliver me or not.
- 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. 90c19
Inflection
editSimple, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Abs. | soírai | sóerait | ||||||
| Conj. | ·soírai | ·soíra, ·sóera | ·sóerat | ·sáerthar | ·soírtar, ·sáertar | ||||
| Rel. | sóeras | sáerthar | soírtar, sáertar | ||||||
| Imperfect indicative | ·sóerad, ·soírad | ·soírthae, ·soírdae | |||||||
| Preterite | Abs. | sóersai | sóerais | ||||||
| Conj. | ·sóerais | ·sóer, ·soír, ·sáer | ·sáersat | ||||||
| Rel. | sóeras | ||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | ro·sóerais | ro·sóer, ro·soír | ||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Future | Abs. | soírfid | soírfithir | ||||||
| Conj. | ·soírfa, ·soírfea | ·soerfaider | ·soírfetar | ||||||
| Rel. | |||||||||
| Conditional | ·soírfad, ·soírfed, ·soírbed | ·soírfitis | |||||||
| Present subjunctive | Abs. | soírae, sóerae | soírthae, soírdae | sóerait | |||||
| Conj. | ·soírae, ·sóerae | ·soíra, ·sóera | ·sóerat | ·sáerthar | ·soírtar, ·sáertar | ||||
| Rel. | sáerthar | soírtar, sáertar | |||||||
| Past subjunctive | sóerad, ·soírad | ||||||||
| Imperative | sóer, soír, sáer | ||||||||
| Verbal noun | sóerad, soírad | ||||||||
| Past participle | sóerthae | ||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Descendants
editMutation
edit| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| sóeraid | ṡóeraid | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “saeraid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language