saíthar
Old Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *saitrom, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey-tro-m, from *sh₂ey- (“to bind, fetter”) + *-trom.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
saíthar n (genitive saíthir, nominative plural saíthra)
- work, labour
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10c21
- Ba torad sa⟨í⟩thir dúun in chrud so ce du·melmis cech túari et ce du·gnemmis a ndu·gníat ar céli, act ní bad nertad na mbráithre et frescsiu fochricce as móo.
- It would be a fruit of labor for us in this way if we consumed every food and if we did what our fellows do, but it would not be a strengthening of the brothers and a hope of a greater reward.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10c21
Declension edit
Neuter o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | saítharN, saíthor | saítharN, saíthor | saítharL, saíthra |
Vocative | saítharN, saíthor | saítharN, saíthor | saítharL, saíthra |
Accusative | saítharN, saíthor | saítharN, saíthor | saítharL, saíthra |
Genitive | saíthairL, saíthir | saíthar, saíthor | saítharN, saíthor |
Dative | saíthurL | saíthraib | saíthraib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants edit
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
saíthar | ṡaíthar | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*saytro-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 325
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “saíthar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language