snáthaid

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

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
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

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
snáthaid shnáthaid
after an, tsnáthaid		 not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, 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

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