nascaid

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Irish

Verb

nascaid

  1. (archaic, dialectal) third-person plural present indicative/present subjunctive of nasc

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *nadsketi, from Proto-Indo-European *neHd-. Cognate with Breton naskañ, English net, and Latin nassa.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

nascaid (conjunct ·naisc, verbal noun naidm)

  1. to bind, to fasten

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: nasc
  • Manx: naisht
  • Scottish Gaelic: naisg

Mutation

Mutation of nascaid
radical lenition nasalization
nascaid
also nnascaid after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
nascaid
pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/
unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “nad-sko-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 282-283

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