samlaidir

Old Irish

Etymology

From samail.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈsaβ̃lɨðʲirʲ]

Verb

samlaidir (verbal noun samail)

to compare [with fri ‘to’]
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 17^b12
  Non·samlafammar frinn fesine.
  We will liken ourselves to ourselves.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 34^a4
  ɔrabad cech bráthair post alium .i. is huisse ce ru·samaltar fri Críst
  so that each brother should be after the other, i.e. it is right that he be compared to Christ
- 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. 63^d7
  condan·samailter fri cech ndodcadchai
  so that we are compared to every infelicity

Inflection

Simple, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive, deponent
		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd	singular	plural
present indicative	abs.			samlaid (nondeponent form)				samaltir
	conj.	·samlur						·samailter, ·samaltar
	rel.			samlathar

imperfect indicative

preterite	abs.
	conj.
	rel.

perfect	deut.
perfect	prot.

future	abs.
	conj.				non·samlafammar (with dummy particle no- and infixed pronoun n-)
	rel.

conditional

present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.							·samaltar; ru·samaltar (ro-form)
	rel.

past subjunctive

imperative

verbal noun
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

condan·samailter

Mutation

Mutation of *samlaidir*
radical	lenition	nasalization
samlaidir	ṡamlaidir	samlaidir

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “samlaidir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language