scríbaid

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scrībō, from Proto-Indo-European *skreybʰ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsʲkʲrʲiːβɨðʲ]

Verb

scríbaid (verbal noun scríbend)

1. to write, write down
   • 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. 27^d16

     Combad notire rod·scríbad cosse.

     It would have been a secretary who had written it until now.

2. to write, compose

Conjugation

Simple, class A I present, s preterite, a subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	abs.								scríbtair
	conj.				·scríbam			·scríbthar	·scríbtar, ·scríbatar
	rel.
imperfect indicative				·scríbad
preterite	abs.
	conj.	·scríbus	·scríbais	·scríb	·scríbsam			·scríbad
	rel.
perfect	deut.	ro·scríbus	ro·scríbais	ro·scríb	ro·scríbsam			ro·scríbad
	prot.
future	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
past subjunctive				·scríbad; rod·scríbad (ro-form with infixed pronoun d-)
imperative
verbal noun		scríbend
past participle		scríbthae
verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Irish: scríobh
• Manx: screeu
• Scottish Gaelic: sgrìobh

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “scríbaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language