smuain
Definitions (by source)
think, 3434, 4010, 5556, etc. ; think of, 90, 5754, 6004. ná s. éinní, ‘ no pienses nada,’ 5673, -91, ‘ no pensaras en nada,’ 5700. s. ar, think of, 1172, 4665, 4771, -73, 6014, etc. vn. smuaineadh, act of thinking, a thought, 2453, -95, —96, etc. (For smuaineadh a nDia, 5507, see Note.) The inflected forms of the vn. come from *smuaintiughadh [as in TBg], viz. gs. smuaintighthe, 1588 ; napl. id. 802, 5182, 5763 ; gpl. -tightheadh, 1125, 2466; dpl. -tighthibh, 1122, 1689, 2452, -79, 4660, 5936. With these cf. past subj. 2 sg. smuaintighthea, 6693 (a solitary instance of -tigh- in the finite verb). [Cf. smuaintigh, vn. -iugad, Fortibras, RC, xix, 54, 262, 264. smuaintiughadh, Carswell, 222, 227. The -t-, which originated in gs. and npl. smuainte, has spread dialectally.]
Desiderius, otherwise called Sgáthán an Chrábhaidh. Editor: Thomas F. O’Rahilly.