insce
Old Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editDerived from the root of seichid (according to Pedersen, who however makes this verb "nur komponiert").[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editinsce f
- a saying, speech, statement, word
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 6a26
- isind insci so glosses in hoc uerbo
- 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. 105b14
- Bed messe .i. no·comallaibthe ⁊ rom·bad fírién insce Dǽ.
- That it would be me, i.e. that the word of God would be fulfilled and would be righteous.
- 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. 25a2
- I n‑ællug insce biid dictio.
- Dictio is usually in connected speech.
- (literally, “…in the connection of speech”)
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 6a26
- (grammar) gender
- (grammar) pronoun
Inflection
editFeminine iā-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | insceL | insciL | insci |
Vocative | insceL | insciL | insci |
Accusative | insciN | insciL | insci |
Genitive | insce | insceL | insceN |
Dative | insciL | inscib | inscib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Irish: inscne
Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
insce (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-insce |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- ^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 814, page 621
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “insce”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language