saiget

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Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sagitta.

Pronunciation

Noun

saiget f (genitive saigte, nominative plural saigtea)

  1. arrow, dart, javelin
    • 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. 58a9
      .i. céin no·mbetis inna saigtea tuidmithi inna feuil nadɔ·biad íc do.
      As long as the arrows stayed stuck to his flesh, there would thus be no healing for him.

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative saigetL saigitL saigteaH
Vocative saigetL saigitL saigteaH
Accusative saigitN saigitL saigteaH
Genitive saigteH saigetL saigetN
Dative saigitL saigtib saigtib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: saiget

Mutation

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

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