snáthaid

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish snáthat (needle)[1] (whence also Manx snaid and Scottish Gaelic snàthad), from Proto-Celtic *snātantā (compare Welsh nodwydd, Breton nodoez), from Proto-Indo-European *sneh₁- (to spin, twist).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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snáthaid f (genitive singular snáthaide, nominative plural snáthaidí)

  1. needle
  2. index (symbol resembling a pointing hand), indicator, pointer
  3. hand (of a clock), gnomon (of a sundial)

Declension

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Declension of snáthaid (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative snáthaid snáthaidí
vocative a shnáthaid a shnáthaidí
genitive snáthaide snáthaidí
dative snáthaid snáthaidí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an tsnáthaid na snáthaidí
genitive na snáthaide na snáthaidí
dative leis an tsnáthaid
don tsnáthaid
leis na snáthaidí

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of snáthaid
radical lenition eclipsis
snáthaid shnáthaid
after an, tsnáthaid
not applicable

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

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “snáthat”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 16
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 6
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 96

Further reading

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