esnaid

Etymology
Contains the prefix. It is one of the very few verbal nouns in Old Irish that are formed by suffixing the ā-stem endings to the verb root, the other ones being and the verbal nouns of the compounds of. Usually root-based verbal nouns are formed as neuter o-stems (and masculine o-stems for W2b verbs).

Noun

 * : insertion
 * "sga"
 * "sga"
 * "sga"

- .i. cosmulius, tra do·mbeir-som híc, aris bésad leu-som in fid do thóbu et fid aile do esnid and.

Inflection
The ā-stem declension is guaranteed by the dative plural. If it were an i-stem, this dative plural would have been *esnaidib.