saiget
Old Irish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editsaiget f (genitive saigte, nominative plural saigtea)
- arrow, dart, javelin
- 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. 58a9
- .i. céin no·mbetis inna saigtea tuidmithi inna feuil nadɔ·biad íc do.
- As long as the arrows stayed stuck to his flesh, there would thus be no healing for him.
- 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. 58a9
Inflection
editFeminine ā-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | saigetL | saigitL | saigteaH |
Vocative | saigetL | saigitL | saigteaH |
Accusative | saigitN | saigitL | saigteaH |
Genitive | saigteH | saigetL | saigetN |
Dative | saigitL | saigtib | saigtib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
editMutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
saiget | ṡaiget | 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), “saiget”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language