sním

See also: šnɨ́m

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *snīmus.

Noun

sním m

  1. verbal noun of sníïd (to spin)
  2. concern, grief
    • 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. 89b7
      .i. lasse ba sním fora menmuin ɔid·fessed cia bed flaith inna diad.
      i.e. when it was a concern in [care on, Thes. Pal.] his mind until he knew who would be king after him.

Inflection

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

  • ascnam
  • cosnam
  • dérnam
  • imchosnam
  • térnam
  • todérnam

Descendants

  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
    • Irish: sníomh
    • Scottish Gaelic: snìomh
    • Manx: sneeu

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
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

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