seichid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sekʷeti (“to say”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsʲexʲiðʲ]

Verb

seichid

  1. to assert, declare
    • c. 700 the Irish Infancy Gospel of Thomas, published in "Two Old Irish Poems", in Ériu 18 (1958), pp. 1-27, edited and with translations by James Carney, stanza 22
      Sích in suí Sacharias:   "Amrae mac in-so,
      má for·cantae bed amrae   fri sodain dano."
      The sage Zacharias said: This is a wonderful boy; if he was taught [at school], he would be yet more wonderful.
    • c. 760 Blathmac mac Con Brettan, published in "A study of the lexicon of the poems of Blathmac Son of Cú Brettan" (2017; PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth), edited and with translations by Siobhán Barrett, stanza 224
      Ro·sích bréithir nádbu balb...
      He has spoken a word that was not stammering...

Inflection

Simple, class B I present, reduplicated preterite
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative abs. seghait (sic)
conj.
rel.
imperfect indicative
preterite abs. sích
conj.
rel. síche
perfect deut. ro·sích
prot.
future abs.
conj.
rel.
conditional
present subjunctive abs.
conj.
rel.
past subjunctive
imperative
verbal noun
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

Several derivatives of this strong verb are weak verbs.

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*sekʷ-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 328

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