saiget

Old Irish[edit]

Borrowed from Latin sagitta.

saiget f (genitive saigte, nominative plural saigtea)

arrow, dart, javelin
- 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. 58^a9
  .i. céin no·mbetis inna saigtea tuidmithi inna feuil nadɔ·biad íc do.
  As long as the arrows stayed stuck to his flesh, there would thus be no healing for him.

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	saiget^L	saigit^L	saigtea^H
Vocative	saiget^L	saigit^L	saigtea^H
Accusative	saigit^N	saigit^L	saigtea^H
Genitive	saigte^H	saiget^L	saiget^N
Dative	saigit^L	saigtib	saigtib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
saiget	ṡaiget	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.