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Old Irish
Etymology
From in- + Proto-Celtic *snadeti (“to hew, carve”).
Verb
in·snaid (verbal noun esnaid)
- to insert
- 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. 118d20
It he inna gnúsi in·snadat dunni int sonartae [leg. in sonartai] inna múr do·forsailced hi lluaithred do accobur a athchumtaig iterum.- It is the appearances which put in our mind the strength of the walls which had been solved into ashes, to desire to rebuild it again.
Inflection
Complex, class B I present, s subjunctive
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in·snadat
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atom·snassar (with infixed pronoun tom-)
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in·snastis
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esnaid
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esnaisse
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| Verbal of necessity
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Mutation
Mutation of insnaid
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nasalization
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in·ṡnaid
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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