seichid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sekʷeti (“to say”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsʲexʲiðʲ]

Verb

seichid

1. to assert, declare
   • c. 700 the Irish Infancy Gospel of Thomas, published in "Two Old Irish Poems", in Ériu 18 (1958), pp. 1-27, edited and with translations by James Carney, stanza 22

     Sích in suí Sacharias:   "Amrae mac in-so,
     má for·cantae bed amrae   fri sodain dano."

     The sage Zacharias said: This is a wonderful boy; if he was taught [at school], he would be yet more wonderful.

   • c. 760 Blathmac mac Con Brettan, published in "A study of the lexicon of the poems of Blathmac Son of Cú Brettan" (2017; PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth), edited and with translations by Siobhán Barrett, stanza 224

     Ro·sích bréithir nádbu balb...

     He has spoken a word that was not stammering...

Inflection

Simple, class B I present, reduplicated preterite

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	abs.						seghait (sic)
	conj.
	rel.
imperfect indicative
preterite	abs.			sích
	conj.
	rel.			síche
perfect	deut.			ro·sích
	prot.
future	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
past subjunctive
imperative
verbal noun
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

Several derivatives of this strong verb are weak verbs.

• con·secha
• do·díuschi
• do·fásaig
• do·fíuschi
• do·inchoisc
• in·coisig

Further reading

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