uisse

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• huisse

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈusʲe/

Adjective

uisse

1. right (complying with justice, morally correct)

   Synonym: cóir

   • 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. 34^a4

     ɔrabad cech bráthair post alium .i. is huisse ce ru·samaltar fri Críst

     so that each brother should be after the other, i.e. it is right that he be compared to Christ

Declension

io/iā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	uisse	uisse	uisse
Vocative	uissi
Accusative	uisse	uissi
Genitive	uissi	uisse	uissi
Dative	uissiu	uissi	uissiu
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	uissi	uissi
Vocative	uissi uissiu*
Accusative	uissi uissiu*
Genitive	uisse
Dative	uissib
Notes	* when substantivized

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 uisse”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language