sligid

From Proto-Celtic *sligeti, from Proto-Indo-European *sleyǵ- (“to smear”).^[1]

sligid (conjunct ·slig, verbal noun slige)

1. to clear out
   • c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, published in Táin Bó Cúailnge. Recension I (1976, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Cecile O'Rahilly, TBC-I

     "Silsimi-ni in fid." Do·gníther dano aní-sin, conid (sed) ainm in puirt-sin Slechta.

     "We shall cut down the wood." It was done, and Slechta is the name of that place.

2. to slaughter, slay
   • 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. 48^d28

     Is de ro·gab Duaid in salm: […] dindí nad·rochoilset ind Assair tempul huare ro·slechta tri chumacht[e] nDǽ.

     It is for this that David sang the psalm: for the fact that the Assyrians had not defiled the Temple, since they were cut down through the power of God.

   • c. 875, Comrac Líadaine ocus Cuirithir, published in Liadain and Curithir: an Irish love-story of the ninth century (1902, London: Nutt), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, page 20

     Not·selo[s]-sæ dia cela.

     I'll kill you if you hide anything.

• sleg (“spear”)
  • Irish: sleá
  • Scottish Gaelic: sleagh
  • Manx: shleiy

• Middle Irish: sligid
  • Irish: sligh

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sligid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language