srennaid
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *sregneti, from Proto-Indo-European *sregʰ- (“to snore”).[1]
Verb
srennaid (conjunct ·srena, verbal noun srém)
- to snore, snort
- 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. 121a14
- ciarid·srena ― glosses Latin fremat (“it might snort”)
- 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. 185a1
- srennim ― glosses Latin sterto (“I snore”)
- 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. 121a14
Inflection
Simple, class A I present, a subjunctive
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| Present subjunctive | Abs. | ||||||||
| Conj. | ·srena | ||||||||
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| Verbal noun | srém | ||||||||
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Descendants
- Irish: srann
- Scottish Gaelic: srann
- Manx: strinnoogh (verbal noun)
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*srognā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 352-353
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “srennaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language