ís
See also: Appendix:Variations of "is"
Faroese edit
Noun edit
ís
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ís m (genitive singular íss, nominative plural ísar)
- ice
- Um það bil 81% af yfirborði Grænlands er þakið ís.
- About 81% of Greenland's surface is covered by ice.
- ice cream
- Langar þig í ís?
- Do you want some ice cream?
Declension edit
declension of ís
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *ɸīssu, from Proto-Indo-European *pedsú, locative plural of *pṓds (“foot”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Preposition edit
ís (takes the dative)
- under, below, beneath
- Patrick's Hymn, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 350, line 17
- Drochet bethad bīd íssum bennacht Dé athar úasum.
- Let there be a bridge of life beneath me, [and] the blessing of God the Father above me.
- Patrick's Hymn, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 357, line 15
- Críst indium, Críst íssum, Críst úasum
- Christ in me, Christ below me, Christ above me
- c. 808, Félire Oengusso, Epilogue, line 377; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:
- Fom·glúaissi mór ndubai sund ís riched rindmas...
- Much sorrow disquiets me here, below star-beautiful heaven...
- 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. 46a8
- hís bronnait
- under a small belly (glossing Latin infra ventriculum)
- Patrick's Hymn, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 350, line 17
Inflection edit
Relativized, possessive, and article-based forms of this preposition are not attested.
Inflection of ís
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 131
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 ís”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old Norse edit
Noun edit
ís