# saigid
## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsaɣʲəðʲ/, [ˈsaɣʲiðʲ]

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *sagyeti or *sageti (“to seek”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- or *seh₂ǵ- (“to follow a trail”). Related to Welsh haeddu (“to deserve”).

#### Verb

saigid (verbal noun saigid)
* to go towards, to approach
* to seek out
** 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. 66$^b$5
    Segait ind firién inna fochaidi ar saigid inna ngnimae foirbthe.The righteous seek out tribulations in order to attain perfect deeds.
* to reach, to attain

##### Inflection

This verb and its derivatives, irregularly for B II verbs, have various non-palatalized present forms, such as a third-person plural segait, conjunct ·segat, in addition to a passive singular ·segar with unpalatalized g. These may have arisen by analogy with verbs like saidid and laigid and nouns like aig where e followed by a palatalized consonant regularly changed to a.
| | | 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. |
| Present indicative | Abs. | saigim | | saigid | | segait | segair | segaiter |
| Present indicative | Conj. | | | ·saig | | ·segat | ·segar | |
| Present indicative | Rel. | | | saiges | | | | |
| Imperfect indicative | Imperfect indicative | | | | | | | |
| Preterite | Abs. | | | sïacht | | sïachtatar | | |
| Preterite | Conj. | | | | | | | |
| Preterite | Rel. | | | | | | | |
| Perfect | Deut. | | | | | ro·sïachtar | | |
| Perfect | Prot. | | | | | | | |
| Future | Abs. | sesa | | siais | | | | |
| Future | Conj. | | | ·sia | ·sesaid | | ·siasstar | |
| Future | Rel. | | | | | | | |
| Conditional | Conditional | | | | | | | |
| Present subjunctive | Abs. | | | | | | | |
| Present subjunctive | Conj. | | ·sáis | ·sá | | ·sasat | | |
| Present subjunctive | Rel. | | | | | | | |
| Past subjunctive | Past subjunctive | | | sásad | | | | |
| Imperative | Imperative | | saig | | saigid | | | |
| Verbal noun | Verbal noun | saigid | | | | | | |
| Past participle | Past participle | | | | | | | |
| Verbal of necessity | Verbal of necessity | saigthi | | | | | | |

##### Derived terms

* ad·saig
* ar·saig
* con·dïeig
* do·coisig
* do·osaig
* do·roich
* do·saig
* fo·saig
* íarmi·foich
* ro·saig

##### Related terms

* -igidir

##### Descendants

* Irish: saigh

### Etymology 2

From *sagyeti +‎ *-tis (i.e. Proto-Celtic *sagyetis), related to Welsh haeddu.

#### Noun

saigid f
* verbal noun of saigid
** 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. 66$^b$5
    Segait ind firién inna fochaidi ar saigid inna ngnimae foirbthe.The righteous seek tribulations in order to attain perfect deeds.

##### Inflection

Feminine i-stem :
| | Singular | Dual | Plural |
| Nominative | saigid | — | — |
| Vocative | saigid | — | — |
| Accusative | saigid$^N$ | — | — |
| Genitive | saichtheo$^H$, saichthea$^H$ | — | — |
| Dative | saigid$^L$ | — | — |
| Initial mutations of a following adjective: $^H$ = triggers aspiration $^L$ = triggers lenition $^N$ = triggers nasalization ||||

##### Derived terms

* saichdetu

##### Descendants

* Irish: saighe

### Mutation

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), “1 saigid (verb)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 saigid (noun)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

### References

* ↑ Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) “*sag-(i̯)e/o-”, in Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, page 555
* ↑ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 82 (a), pages 53–54; reprinted 2017
* ↑ de Bernardo Stempel, Patrizia (1999) Nominale Wortbildung des älteren Irischen: Stammbildung und Derivation [Noun Formation in Old Irish: Stem-formation and derivation] (Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie) (in German), volume 15, Tübingen: Niemeyer, →ISBN, page 451