haeddu

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *haɣeð, from Proto-Celtic *sagyeti (“to seek out”) +‎ *-iyā. Cognate with Old Irish saigid (“to approach, to reach”) and Latin sagio (“I perceive (quickly)”).[1][2]

Verb

haeddu (first-person singular present haeddaf, not mutable)

  1. to deserve, to merit

References
  1. Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, page 557
  2. R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “haeddu”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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