English

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Noun

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ansae

  1. plural of ansa

Anagrams

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Latin

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Noun

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ānsae

  1. inflection of ānsa:
    1. nominative/vocative plural
    2. genitive/dative singular

Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From an- (un-) +‎ assae (easy).[1]

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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ansae (comparative ansu, superlative ansam)

  1. difficult
    Synonyms: doraid, doirb
    • 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. 13a19
      ar is ansæ in ball do thinchosc neich as·berad cenn
      for it is difficult for the member to correct what the head said

Declension

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io/iā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative ansae ansae ansae
Vocative ansai
Accusative ansae ansai
Genitive ansai ansae ansai
Dative ansu ansai ansu
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative ansai ansai
Vocative ansai
ansu*
Accusative ansai
ansu*
Genitive ansae
Dative ansaib
Notes * when substantivized

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: ansa

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
ansae
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-ansae
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, § 872(d), page 544

Further reading

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