césaid

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • céssaid

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kʷenssāti, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷendʰ- (to suffer). Cognate with Ancient Greek πάσχω (páskhō) and πάθος (páthos).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkʲeːsɨðʲ]

Verb

césaid (verbal noun céssad)

  1. to suffer, to endure
    • 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. 25a10
      Níp imned libsi mo fochidi-se, ꝉ cia chéste ar iriss Críst.
      May my sufferings not be tribulation for you pl, or although you may suffer for Christ’s faith

Inflection

Descendants

  • Irish: céas
  • Scottish Gaelic: ceus

Mutation

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

Further reading

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