claidid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kladeti. Cognate with Welsh claddu (bury) and Breton klazañ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈklaðʲiðʲ/

Verb

claidid (conjunct ·claid, verbal noun claide)

  1. to dig
    • c. 750-800 Tairired na nDessi from Rawlinson B 502, published in "The Expulsion of the Dessi", Y Cymmrodor (1901, Society of Cymmrodorion), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, vol. 14, pp. 104-135, paragraph 3
      Is desin ro·gníd Ocheill for Temraig sechtair .i. clasa[e] ráth la Cormac, conid inte no·foihed-som do grés, ar ni ba hada rí co n-anim do feis i Temraig.
      Hence Achaill was built by the side of Tara, that is to say a ringfort was dug by Cormac in which he would always sleep, as it was not lawful for a king with a blemish to sleep in Tara.

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • clad (trench, ditch)

Descendants

  • Irish: claidh
  • Manx: cleigh
  • Scottish Gaelic: cladhaich

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
claidid chlaidid claidid
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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