tánaise

Old Irish

Etymology

Perhaps from to- +‎ ad- +‎ ne- + the root of saidid (“to sit”), from Proto-Celtic *sedeti, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-. A similar formation, prefixed with imm-, underlies imthánad (“alternation”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaːnisʲe/

Adjective

Old Irish ordinal numbers

<  1st	2nd	3rd  >
Cardinal : dá     Ordinal : tánaise

tánaise

1. second
   • 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. 159^a2

     Air in tan no·labrither in cétni persin ƚ in tánaisi do·adbit ainm hi suidiu.

     For when you say the first person or the second, you show a noun in this.

Inflection

io/iā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	tánaise	tánaise	tánaise
Vocative	tánaisi
Accusative	tánaise	tánaisi
Genitive	tánaisi	tánaise	tánaisi
Dative	tánaisiu	tánaisi	tánaisiu
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	tánaisi	tánaisi
Vocative	tánaisi tánaisiu*
Accusative	tánaisi tánaisiu*
Genitive	tánaise
Dative	tánaisib
Notes	* when substantivized

Descendants

• Irish: tánaiste
  • → English: Tánaiste

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
tánaise	thánaise	tánaise pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tánaise”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language