See also: isin, ISIN, işin, Işın, ısın, ışın, and -isin

Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From í (deictic particle) +‎ sin (that).[1]

Pronunciation

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Determiner

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ísin

  1. that (used after the noun, which is preceded by the definite article; emphatic)
    • c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 58a
      Bíid didiu a confessio hísin do foísitin pecthae, bíid dano do molad, bíid dano do atlugud buide; do foísitin didiu atá-som sunt.
      That confessio, then, is for confessing sins, it is also for praising, it is also for offering thanks; here, then, it is for confessing.

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Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
ísin
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-ísin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 475.2, pages 300–1