claide

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkla.ðʲe/

Noun

claide f

1. verbal noun of claidid: digging
   • c. 650 Do Fastad Cirt ocus Dligid, published in Ancient Laws of Ireland: Uraicecht Becc and Certain Other Selected Brehon Law Tracts (1901, Dublin: Stationery Office), edited and with translations by W. Neilson Hancock, Thaddeus O'Mahony, Alexander George Richey, and Robert Atkinson, vol. 5, pp. 425-494, page 474

     claide míanna

     digging up minerals [delving mines, Laws editors]

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 35^a8

     hi claidi

     in a digging

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	claideL	claidiL	claidi
vocative	claideL	claidiL	claidi
accusative	claidiN	claidiL	claidi
genitive	claide	claideL	claideN
dative	claidiL	claidib	claidib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of claide

radical	lenition	nasalization
claide	chlaide	claide pronounced with /ɡ-/

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), “claide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language