snigid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *snigʷyeti (“to snow”), from Proto-Indo-European *sneygʷʰ- (“to stick to”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʲn͈ʲiɣʲiðʲ/

Verb

snigid (conjunct ·snig, verbal noun snige)

1. to drip, drop, flow (of liquids, hair, sand)
   • 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. 89^c15

     amal bróin n-ailgen sniges hi cnai

     as the gentle rain that drops into a fleece.

Conjugation

Simple, class B II present, reduplicated preterite, s future

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	abs.			snigid
	conj.			·snig
	rel.			sniges
imperfect indicative
preterite	abs.			senaig
	conj.
	rel.
perfect	deut.			ro·senaig			ro·sengatar
	prot.
future	abs.			sinis
	conj.
	rel.
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
past subjunctive
imperative
verbal noun		snige
past participle
verbal of necessity

Related terms

• snechtae (“snow”)

Descendants

• Middle Irish: snigid
  • Irish: snigh

Mutation

Mutation of snigid

radical	lenition	nasalization
snigid	ṡnigid	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.