sluicid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *slunketi.

Verb

sluicid (verbal noun slocud)

1. to swallow
   • 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. 22^b1

     amal sluces a n-adnacul n-ersoilcthe ní téte ind ⁊ du·tét bréntu as

     as the open sepulcher swallows whatever goes into it, which comes out of it as a stench

   • c. 895–901, Vita tripartita Sancti Patricii, published in Bethu Phátraic: The tripartite life of Patrick (1939, Hodges, Figgis), edited and with translations by Kathleen Mulchrone, line 1013

     ...ro·lluicc in talam inna dí arracht déacc aili co n-icci a cinnu,

     The earth swallowed the twelve other idols up to their heads...

Inflection

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

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	abs.						slogait
	conj.
	rel.			sluces
imperfect indicative				·slocad
preterite	abs.						sloicsitt
	conj.
	rel.
perfect	deut.			ro·lluic				ro·slogeth
	prot.
future	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.			·róllca (ro-form)
	rel.
past subjunctive
imperative
verbal noun		slocud
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• do·athsluici

Related terms

• slucait

Descendants

• Irish: slog, sloig
  • → Yola: slug

References

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