snáthat

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• snáthath (St. Gall Priscian glosses)

Etymology

Related to snáth (“thread”). Compare Welsh nodwydd.

Noun

snáthat f

1. needle

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	snáthatL	snáthaitL	snáthataH
Vocative	snáthatL	snáthaitL	snáthataH
Accusative	snáthaitN	snáthaitL	snáthataH
Genitive	snáthaiteH	snáthatL	snáthatN
Dative	snáthaitL	snáthataib	snáthataib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: snáthat
  • Irish: snáthaid
  • Scottish Gaelic: snàthad
  • Manx: snaid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
snáthat	ṡnáthat	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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