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Old Irish
Etymology
Matasović derives it from Proto-Celtic *sregnāti, from Proto-Indo-European *sregʰ- (“to snore”), but this should have given *srénaid. According to Vendryes it's from a Proto-Indo-European root *srenk- + nasal suffix. Related to Ancient Greek ῥέγκω, ῥέγχω (rhénkō, rhénkhō, “to snore”).
Verb
srennaid (conjunct ·srena, verbal noun srém)
- to snore, snort
- 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. 121a14
- ciarid·srena ― glosses Latin fremat (“it might snort”)
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 185a1
- srennim ― glosses Latin sterto (“I snore”)
Inflection
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Descendants
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*srognā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 352-353
- ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1959–96) “srenn-”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume R S, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page 185
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