Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Thurneysen derives this from so- (good) +‎ cuit (portion) +‎ -e.[1] However, the /ð/ poses phonological difficulties.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sochuide f (genitive sochuide)

  1. many, multitude, crowd
    • 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. 107a15
      Bid sochaide atrefea indiuts{i}u ⁊ bid fáilid nach oín adid·trefea.
      There will be many who will dwell in thee, and every one will be joyful who will so dwell.
      (literally, “…who will dwell it”)

Inflection

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Feminine iā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative sochuideL
Vocative sochuideL
Accusative sochuidiN
Genitive sochuide
Dative sochuidiL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Irish: sochaí[2]

Mutation

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

References

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  1. ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 1224
  2. ^ Hickey, Raymond (2012) “Internally- and Externally-Motivated Language Change”, in Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre, Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy, editors, The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, pages 387–408

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