samlaidir

Old Irish

Etymology

From samail.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsaβ̃lɨðʲirʲ]

Verb

samlaidir (verbal noun samail)

1. to compare [with fri ‘to’]
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 17^b12

     Non·samlafammar frinn fesine.

     We will liken ourselves to ourselves.

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 34^a4

     ɔrabad cech bráthair post alium .i. is huisse ce ru·samaltar fri Críst

     so that each brother should be after the other, i.e. it is right that he be compared to Christ

   • 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. 63^d7

     condan·samailter fri cech ndodcadchai

     so that we are compared to every infelicity

Inflection

Simple, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive, deponent

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Abs.			samlaid (nondeponent form)				samaltir
	Conj.	·samlur						·samailter, ·samaltar
	Rel.			samlathar
Imperfect indicative
Preterite	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Abs.
	Conj.				non·samlafammar (with dummy particle no- and infixed pronoun n-)
	Rel.
Conditional
Present subjunctive	Abs.
	Conj.							·samaltar; ru·samaltar (ro-form)
	Rel.
Past subjunctive
Imperative
Verbal noun
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• condan·samailter

Mutation

Mutation of samlaidir

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