aillsiu

Old Irish

Etymology

Of obscure origin. Possibly related to the source of Latin algeo (“I am cold”), but this is "morphologically unsatisfactory." However, compare allas (“perspiration, sweat”).

Noun

aillsiu n or f

1. sore, tumor, abscess, ulcer
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 30^b13

     amal tuthle nó ailsin glosses cancer

Descendants

• Irish: ailse
• Scottish Gaelic: aillse

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aillsiu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language