snáthat

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• snáthath (St. Gall Priscian glosses)

Etymology

Related to snáth (“thread”). Compare Welsh nodwydd.

Noun

snáthat f

1. needle

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	snáthatL	snáthaitL	snáthataH
vocative	snáthatL	snáthaitL	snáthataH
accusative	snáthaitN	snáthaitL	snáthataH
genitive	snáthaiteH	snáthatL	snáthatN
dative	snáthaitL	snáthataib	snáthataib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: snáthat
  • Irish: snáthaid
  • Scottish Gaelic: snàthad
  • Manx: snaid

Mutation

Mutation of snáthat

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