sásad

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsaːsað]

Noun

sásad m (genitive sásta)

1. verbal noun of sásaid (“to satisfy”)
2. satisfaction
3. food
   • 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^b6

     Air mad panem nammá du·berad-som ⁊ ní taibred meum, ro·bad dund ṡásad dïant ainm panis tantum no·regad; húare immurgu du·n-uic meum, is ar chech ṡásad da·uic-som amal sodin.

     For if it were panem only that he put and he did not put meum, it would be only to the food to which is [given] the name panis that it would apply; however, because he has put meum, it is for every food then that he has put that.

Declension

Masculine u-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	sásad	—	—
vocative	sásad	—	—
accusative	sásadN	—	—
genitive	sástoH, sástaH	—	—
dative	sásadL	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of sásad

radical	lenition	nasalization
sásad	ṡásad	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), “sásad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language