snáthaid
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈsˠn̪ˠɑːhəd̪ˠ/ (corresponding to the form snáthad)[2]
- (Cois Fharraige) IPA(key): /ˈsˠn̪ˠɑːdʲ/
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈsˠn̪ˠahəd̪ˠ/ (corresponding to the form snáthad);[3] /ˈsˠn̪ˠahədʲ/[4] (in the dative)
Noun
[edit]snáthaid f (genitive singular snáthaide, nominative plural snáthaidí)
- needle
- index (symbol resembling a pointing hand), indicator, pointer
- hand (of a clock), gnomon (of a sundial)
Declension
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- Alternative plural: snáthadaí (Cois Fharraige)
Derived terms
[edit]- amach ón tsnáthaid
- bean snáthaide
- cac snáthaide
- claonadh snáthaide
- cró snáthaide
- lán na snáthaide
- lása snáthaide
- obair shnáthaide
- snáthadán
- snáthaid an diabhail
- snáthaid an phúca
- snáthaid baraiméadair
- snáthaid bheag
- snáthaid chaol
- snáthaid chlaonais
- snáthaid chléithe
- snáthaid chomhla
- snáthaid dearnála
- snáthaid lín
- snáthaid mhálaí
- snáthaid mhara
- snáthaid mhór
- snáthaid ramhar
- snáthaidí oighir
Related terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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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
[edit]- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “snáthat”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 16
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 6
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 96
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “snáthaid”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Categories:
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)neh₁-
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish feminine nouns
- Irish second-declension nouns
- ga:Knitting
- ga:Sewing