saigid

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɣʲəðʲ/, [ˈsaɣʲiðʲ]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *sagyeti or *sageti (“to seek”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- or *seh₂ǵ- (“to follow a trail”). Related to Welsh haeddu (“to deserve”).

Verb

saigid (verbal noun saigid)

1. to go towards, to approach
2. to seek out
   • 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. 66^b5

     Segait ind firién inna fochaidi ar saigid inna ngnimae foirbthe.

     The righteous seek out tribulations in order to attain perfect deeds.

3. to reach, to attain

Inflection

This verb and its derivatives, irregularly for B II verbs, have various non-palatalized present forms, such as a third-person plural segait, conjunct ·segat, in addition to a passive singular ·segar with unpalatalized g. These may have arisen by analogy with verbs like saidid and laigid and nouns like aig where e followed by a palatalized consonant regularly changed to a.

Simple, class B II present, t preterite, s future, s subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	abs.	saigim		saigid			segait	segair	segaiter
	conj.			·saig			·segat	·segar
	rel.			saiges
imperfect indicative
preterite	abs.			sïacht			sïachtatar
	conj.
	rel.
perfect	deut.						ro·sïachtar
	prot.
future	abs.	sesa		siais
	conj.			·sia		·sesaid		·siasstar
	rel.
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.		·sáis	·sá			·sasat
	rel.
past subjunctive				sásad
imperative			saig			saigid
verbal noun		saigid
past participle
verbal of necessity		saigthi

Derived terms

• ad·saig
• ar·saig
• con·dïeig
• do·coisig
• do·osaig
• do·roich
• do·saig
• fo·saig
• íarmi·foich
• ro·saig

Related terms

• -igidir

Descendants

• Irish: saigh

Etymology 2

From *sagyeti +‎ *-tis (i.e. Proto-Celtic *sagyetis), related to Welsh haeddu.

Noun

saigid f

1. verbal noun of saigid
   • 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. 66^b5

     Segait ind firién inna fochaidi ar saigid inna ngnimae foirbthe.

     The righteous seek tribulations in order to attain perfect deeds.

Inflection

Feminine i-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	saigid	—	—
vocative	saigid	—	—
accusative	saigidN	—	—
genitive	saichtheoH, saichtheaH	—	—
dative	saigidL	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Derived terms

• saichdetu

Descendants

• Irish: saighe

Mutation

Mutation of saigid

radical	lenition	nasalization
saigid	ṡaigid	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), “1 saigid (verb)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 saigid (noun)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language