saiget

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sagitta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ɣʲəd/, [ˈsaɣʲed]

Noun

saiget f (genitive saigte, nominative plural saigtea)

1. arrow, dart, javelin
   • 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. 58^a9

     .i. céin no·mbetis inna saigtea tuidmithi inna feuil nadɔ·biad íc do.

     As long as the arrows stayed stuck to his flesh, there would thus be no healing for him.

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	saigetL	saigitL	saigteaH
vocative	saigetL	saigitL	saigteaH
accusative	saigitN	saigitL	saigteaH
genitive	saigteH	saigetL	saigetN
dative	saigitL	saigtib	saigtib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Descendants

• Middle Irish: saiget
  • Irish: saighead
  • Manx: side
  • Scottish Gaelic: saighead

Mutation

Mutation of saiget

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