scrútaid
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]scrútaid (conjunct ·scrúta, verbal noun scrútan, scrútain, scrútad)
- to examine, to investigate
- to consider
- 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. 91c1
- No scrútain-se, in tan no mbíinn isnaib fochaidib, dús in retarscar cairde ṅDǽ ⁊ a remcaissiu, ⁊ ní tucus-sa insin, in ru·etarscar fa naic.
- I used to consider, when I was in the tribulations, [to see] whether the covenant of God and his providence had departed, and I didn't understand that, whether it had departed or not.
- 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. 91c1
Inflection
[edit]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. | ||
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| Present indicative | Abs. | scrútai | |||||||
| Conj. | ·scrútai | ·scrúta | ·scrútar, ·scrútadar | ||||||
| Rel. | scrútar | ||||||||
| Imperfect indicative | ·scrútain, ·scrútainn | ·scrútad | |||||||
| Preterite | Abs. | ||||||||
| Conj. | ·scrútus | ·scrútais | ·scrút | ·scrútad | |||||
| Rel. | |||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | ro·scrútus | ro·scrútais | ro·scrút | |||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Future | Abs. | ||||||||
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| Rel. | |||||||||
| Conditional | |||||||||
| Present subjunctive | Abs. | scrúta | scrútai | ||||||
| Conj. | ·scrút | ·scrútai | ·scrúta | ·scrútar, ·scrútadar | |||||
| Rel. | scrútar | ||||||||
| Past subjunctive | ·scrútain, ·scrútainn | ·scrútad | |||||||
| Imperative | scrút | scrútad | |||||||
| Verbal noun | scrútan, scrútain, scrútad | ||||||||
| Past participle | |||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Descendants
[edit]- Irish: scrúd
- Scottish Gaelic: sgrùd
- ⇒ Middle Irish: *scrútaigid
- Irish: scrúdaigh
- Manx: scrutaghey
- Scottish Gaelic: sgrùdaich
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “scrútaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language