aslena
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom ess- + lenaid (“to stick, cling”), the idea being that filth sticks to whatever it is making dirty.[1]
Pronunciation
editVerb
editas·lena (verbal noun éillned)
- to pollute, defile
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, 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. 74c3
- .i. lasse no·llochtaigtis .i. no·lochtaigtis ⁊ nu·pectaigtis ⁊ as·lentis a menma[e] fadesin tri a[dé]itched ⁊ ingabail inna mbriathar ṅdiut nu·radin-se.
- when they used to commit offences; i.e. they used to commit offences, commit sins, and defile their own minds through the detesting and reproach of the simple words I used to say.
- c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 1082
- It hé a chúis [aicsin, La.] ara·nglanaiter .i. arná·héilnet a cairpthiu oc dal [dul, La.] for caí ⁊ arná·huilled echradæ [huallnet echraide, La.] oc techt do oenach [oenuch, La.].
- These are the causes due to which they are cleaned, i.e. for chariots to not dirty themselves while going on a visit, and for horses to not dirty themselves while traveling to a fair.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, 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. 74c3
Inflection
editComplex, class A I present, s preterite, a subjunctive
1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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Present indicative | Deut. | as·lenaimm | as·lena | as·lentar | |||||
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Imperfect indicative | Deut. | as·lentis | |||||||
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Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
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Perfect | Deut. | ru·n-eillestar | asru·lensat | as·rollennad | as·rulenta | ||||
Prot. | ·reildisem | ||||||||
Future | Deut. | ||||||||
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Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
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Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
Prot. | ·éilnet | ||||||||
Past subjunctive | Deut. | as·lentae | |||||||
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Imperative | |||||||||
Verbal noun | éillned | ||||||||
Past participle | |||||||||
Verbal of necessity |
Descendants
editMutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
as·lena | unchanged | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- ^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 761, pages 565–566
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “as-lena”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂leyH-
- Old Irish terms prefixed with ess-
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish verbs
- Old Irish terms with quotations
- Old Irish complex verbs
- Old Irish class A I present verbs
- Old Irish s preterite verbs
- Old Irish a subjunctive verbs