saih

Manx

Alternative forms

  • seiy (In Cregeen's dictionary and Luke 5:3 by conflation with seiy /səi/ ‘stir, agitate’.)[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish sáithid, sáidid, from Old Irish sáidid (“thrust, fix”),[2] cognate with Irish sáigh and Scottish Gaelic sàth.

Pronunciation

Verb

saih

  1. stab, thrust

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Christopher Lewin (forthcoming) Sheean as Screeu, St John's: Culture Vannin, page 63
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sáidid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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