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Etymology
From Middle Irish snáthat, from Old Irish snáthat.
Noun
snaid f (genitive singular snaidey, plural snaidyn)
- needle
- pointer, indicator
Mutation
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *snāti, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂- (“to swim”).
Pronunciation
Verb
snaïd (verbal noun snám)
- to swim
- c. 800, Immacaldam Choluim Cille ⁊ ind óclaig, published in "The Lough Foyle Colloquy Texts: Immacaldam Choluim Chille 7 ind Óclaig oc Carraic Eolairg and Immacaldam in Druad Brain 7 Inna Banḟátho Febuil Ós Loch Ḟebuil", Ériu 52 (2002), pp. 53-87, edited and with translations by John Carey,
"Cesc," ol Colum Cille, "cóich robo riam, a lloch-sa at·chiam?" Respondit iuvenis: "Ro·fetur-sa aní-sin; [...] ro·giult-sa a mbasa os, ro·senas a mbasa é[o] [MS re henaus indbasi hée]...- "A question," said Colum Cille, "whose was it formerly, this loch we see?" The youth responded, "I know that! I had grazed it when I was a stag, I had swum it when I was a salmon...
- 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. 93c1
- snaid ― (glosses Latin meat when it describes the flow of the Jordan River)
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re·henaus (misspelling of ra·senas, with infixed pronoun a-)
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