sáth

See also: sàth, saþ, and sáð

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sātis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [saːθ]

Noun

sáth f (genitive sáithe)

1. satiety
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 97^d10

     Is peccad díabul lesom .i. fodord doïb di dommatu, ⁊ du·fúairthed ní leu fora sáith din main, ⁊ todlugud inna féulæ ɔ amairis nánda·tibérad Día doïb, ⁊ nach coimnacuir ⁊ issi dano insin ind frescissiu co fochaid.

     It is a double sin in his opinion, i.e. the murmuring by them of want, although there remained some of the manna with them upon their satiety, and demanding the meat with faithlessness that God would not give it to them, and [even] that he could not; therefore that is the expectation with testing.

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	sáthL	—	—
Vocative	sáthL	—	—
Accusative	sáithN	—	—
Genitive	sáitheH	—	—
Dative	sáithL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: sáith
  • Irish: sáith
  • Manx: saie
  • Scottish Gaelic: sàth

Mutation

Mutation of sáth

radical	lenition	nasalization
sáth	ṡáth	unchanged

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