insnaid

Old Irish

Etymology

From in- +‎ Proto-Celtic *snadeti (“to hew, carve”).

Verb

in·snaid (verbal noun esnaid)

1. to insert
   • 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. 118^d20

     It he inna gnúsi in·snadat dunni int sonartae [leg. in sonartai] inna múr do·forsailced hi lluaithred do accobur a athchumtaig iterum.

     It is the appearances which put in our mind the strength of the walls which had been [dis]solved into ashes, [for us] to desire to rebuild it again.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.						in·snadat
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.							atom·snassar (with infixed pronoun tom-)
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.						in·snastis
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun		esnaid
Past participle		esnaisse
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of insnaid

radical	lenition	nasalization
in·snaid	in·ṡnaid	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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