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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish snáthat (“needle”)[1] (whence also Manx snaid and Scottish Gaelic snàthad), from Proto-Celtic *snātantā (compare Welsh nodwydd, Breton nodoez), from Proto-Indo-European *sneh₁- (“to spin, twist”).
Pronunciation
Noun
snáthaid f (genitive singular snáthaide, nominative plural snáthaidí)
- needle
- index (symbol resembling a pointing hand), indicator, pointer
- hand (of a clock), gnomon (of a sundial)
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| snáthaid
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shnáthaid
after an, tsnáthaid
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not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “snáthat”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 16
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 6
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 96
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