snáid

See also: snaid

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• snáidid, snáigid

Etymology

From Old Irish snaïd, from Proto-Celtic *snāti, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂- (“to swim”).

Verb

snáïd (verbal noun snám)

1. to swim
2. to creep, crawl

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• imm·sná

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “snáïd”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language