sligid
See also: sligið
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *sligeti, from Proto-Indo-European *sleyǵ- (“to smear”).[1]
Verb edit
sligid (conjunct ·slig, verbal noun slige)
- to clear out
- c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, published in Táin Bó Cúailnge. Recension I (1976, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Cecile O'Rahilly, TBC-I
- "Silsimi-ni in fid." Do·gníther dano aní-sin, conid (sed) ainm in puirt-sin Slechta.
- "We shall cut down the wood." It was done, and Slechta [literally "Cleared"] is the name of that place.
- c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, published in Táin Bó Cúailnge. Recension I (1976, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Cecile O'Rahilly, TBC-I
- to slaughter, slay
- 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. 48d28
- Is de ro·gab Duaid in salm: […] dindí nad·rochoilset ind Assair tempul huare ro·slechta tri chumacht[e] nDǽ.
- It is for this that David sang the psalm: […] for the fact that the Assyrians had not defiled the Temple, since they were cut down through the power of God.
- c. 875, Comrac Líadaine ocus Cuirithir, published in Liadain and Curithir: an Irish love-story of the ninth century (1902, London: Nutt), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, page 20
- Not·selo[s]-sæ dia cela.
- I'll kill you if you hide anything.
- 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. 48d28
Inflection edit
Simple, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, s future
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| Preterite | Abs. | selaig | slechtae | ||||||
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| Perfect | Deut. | ro·selgatar | ro·slechta | ||||||
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| Future | Abs. | silsa | silis | silsimi | silsiter | ||||
| Conj. | ·selos | ||||||||
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| Present subjunctive | Abs. | ||||||||
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| Imperative | slig | ||||||||
| Verbal noun | slige | ||||||||
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Derived terms edit
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Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*slig-o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 346
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “sligid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language