saigid
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsaɣʲəðʲ/, [ˈsaɣʲiðʲ]
Etymology 1
From Proto-Celtic *sagyeti, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g-.
Verb
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- to go towards, to approach
- to seek out
- 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. 66b5
- Segait ind firién inna fochaidi ar saigid inna ngnimae foirbthe.
- The righteous seek out tribulations in order to attain perfect deeds.
- 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. 66b5
- to reach, to attain
Inflection
This verb and its derivatives, irregularly for B II verbs, have various non-palatalized present forms, such as a third-person plural segait, conjunct ·segat, in addition to a passive singular ·segar with unpalatalized g. These may have arisen by analogy with verbs like saidid and laigid and nouns like aig where e followed by a palatalized consonant regularly changed to a.[1] Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Derived terms
- ad·saig
- ar·saig
- con·dïeig
- do·coisig
- do·osaig
- do·roich
- do·saig
- fo·saig
- íarmi·foich
- ro·saig
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Proto-Celtic *sagetis, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- + *-tis.
Noun
saigid f
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- 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. 66b5
- Segait ind firién inna fochaidi ar saigid inna ngnimae foirbthe.
- The righteous seek tribulations in order to attain perfect deeds.
- 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. 66b5
Inflection
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Derived terms
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) | Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 saigid (verb)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 saigid (noun)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
References
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003), D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 82 (a), pages 53–54