ísin

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

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• hísin

Etymology

í (deictic particle) +‎ sin (“that”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːsʲinʲ/

Determiner

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. 58^a

     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.

Further reading

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003), D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 475.2, pages 300–1