ísin
Old Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom í (deictic particle) + sin (“that”).[1]
Pronunciation
editDeterminer
editísin
- 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.
- 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
See also
editMutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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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
edit- ^ 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