éscae

See also: escae

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• aesca, æscae, ésca, æscæ, éisce

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ēskyom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːske/

Noun

éscae n (genitive éscai)

1. moon

   Synonym: ré

2. lunar month

   Synonym: mí éscai

   • c. 850 Glosses on the Carlsruhe Beda, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 10–30, [[oldwikisource:Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus/Glosses on Beda (Carlsruhe)#3c{{{3}}}|Bcr. 3c]]

     Ar is airchenn ṁbes salt hi ciunn nóidécdi mad i ndib ṅ‑uarib deac nammá bas laigu cach mí aescai oldaas trichtaige. Is ed didiu slándliged salto noichtiche co lleuth du árim in ę́scu.

     For it is certain that there should be a leap at the end of the nineteen-years-cycle if it is by twelve hours only that every lunar month is less than a space of thirty days. This, then, is the healthy law of the leap, to reckon 29½ days in the lunar month.

Inflection

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	éscaeN	—	—
Vocative	éscaeN	—	—
Accusative	éscaeN	—	—
Genitive	éscaiL	—	—
Dative	éscuL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• éscamail (“lunar”)

Descendants

• Irish: éasca
• Manx: eayst

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
éscae	unchanged	n-éscae
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), “ésca(e), éisce”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language