Íssu

See also: issu

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• Ísu

Etymology

From Latin Iēsūs, from Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs), from Hebrew יֵשׁוּעַ (yĕšuaʿ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːsu/

Proper noun

Íssu m (invariable)

1. Jesus
   • 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. 3^c2

     tri chretim i nÍsu ꝉ isin beothu i táa Ísu iar n-esséirgu

     through belief in Jesus or in the life in which Jesus is after resurrection

Descendants

• Irish: Íosa
• Manx: Yeesey
• Scottish Gaelic: Ìosa

Mutation

Mutation of Íssu

radical	lenition	nasalization
Íssu (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	nÍssu

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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