scríbaid

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scrībō, from Proto-Indo-European *skreybʰ-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsʲkʲrʲiːvɨðʲ]

Verb

scríbaid (verbal noun scríbend)

  1. to write, write down
    • 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. 27d16
      Combad notire rod·scríbad cosse.
      It would have been a secretary who had written it until now.
  2. to write, compose

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Irish: scríobh
  • Manx: screeu
  • Scottish Gaelic: sgrìobh

References

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