abis

See also: Abis

Contents

LatinEdit

VerbEdit

abīs

1. second-person singular present active indicative of abeō

ReferencesEdit

• ABIS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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Old IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Latin abyssus, from Ancient Greek ἄβυσσος ‎(ábussos).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈavʲisʲ/

NounEdit

abis ‎(accusative plural abissiu) (feminine in the later language, but gender is unclear in Old Irish; possibly masculine as in Latin)

1. abyss
   • c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 51^d8

     is samlid insin rodaingnigestar Dia imna abissiu

     even so hath God made firm about the abysses

   • c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55^d11

     Ataat mesai Dǽ nephchomthetarrachti amal abis ⁊ amal fudumain.

     There are judgments of God incomprehensible like an abyss and like a depth.

DescendantsEdit

• Irish: aibhéis

MutationEdit

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
abis	unchanged	n-abis
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

ReferencesEdit

• “aibis, aibís” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.