nascaid

Irish

Verb

nascaid

1. (archaic, dialectal) third-person plural present indicative/present subjunctive of nasc

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *nadsketi, from Proto-Indo-European *neHd-. Cognate with Breton naskañ, English net, and Latin nassa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n͈askəðʲ/, [n͈askɨðʲ]

Verb

nascaid (conjunct ·naisc, verbal noun naidm)

1. to bind, to fasten

Inflection

Simple, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, s future, s subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	abs.
	conj.	·naiscim		·naisc			·nascat
	rel.
imperfect indicative
preterite	abs.			nenaisc				nascair
	conj.	·nenasc	·nenaisc	·nenaisc				·nascar
	rel.
perfect	deut.	ro·nenasc	ro·nenaisc
	prot.
future	abs.			nenais
	conj.	·nenas	·nenais	·nena
	rel.
conditional							·nensaitis
present subjunctive	abs.							nasair
	conj.		·nais	·ná				·nasar	·nasaiter
	rel.
past subjunctive
imperative
verbal noun		naidm
past participle		nassa
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• imm·naisc

Related terms

• nasc

Descendants

• Irish: nasc
• Manx: naisht
• Scottish Gaelic: naisg

Mutation

Mutation of nascaid

radical	lenition	nasalization
nascaid also nnascaid after a proclitic ending in a vowel	nascaid pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/	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), “naiscid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 784, pages 582–583