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

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
snigid	ṡnigid	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.