asoilgi
Old Irish
editEtymology
editVerb
editas·oilgi (verbal noun oslucud)
- to open
- Senchas Már, published in Ancient Laws of Ireland: Din Techtugad and Certain Other Selected Brehon Law Tracts (1879, Dublin: Stationery Office), edited and with translations by W. Neilson Hancock, Thaddeus O'Mahony, Alexander George Richey, and Robert Atkinson, vol. 1, p. 6
- […] co n-oslaictea dorus i(th)frin […]
- […] and the gates of Hell were opened […]
- c. 750-800 Torche na nDessi from Laud 610, published in "The Expulsion of the Déssi", Ériu 3 (1907), edited by Kuno Meyer, pp. 135-142, line 177
- Ni sreccell [probably a scribal mistake for the in fricill seen in Rawl.] ⁊ cartait-som in ingin Dil ⁊ as·oelc a forud remib.
- The gift, Dil's daughter divided it and she opened the residence before them. [Basically, Dil is offered some wine as a peace offering. His daughter Eithne lets two of Dil's foster-sons see him while he is drunk.]
- c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe, TBC-YBL 393
- Íadais indala súil connarbo lethiu andás cró snáthaidi; as·oilg alaile comba mor béolu fid-chóich.
- He closed one eye so that it was no wider than the eye of a needle; he opened the other until it was as large as the mouth of a mead-goblet.
- Senchas Már, published in Ancient Laws of Ireland: Din Techtugad and Certain Other Selected Brehon Law Tracts (1879, Dublin: Stationery Office), edited and with translations by W. Neilson Hancock, Thaddeus O'Mahony, Alexander George Richey, and Robert Atkinson, vol. 1, p. 6
Inflection
editComplex, class A II present, s preterite
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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| Present indicative | Deut. | as·oilgi | |||||||
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| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Preterite | Deut. | as·oilc | |||||||
| Prot. | ·oslaictea | ||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Verbal noun | oslucud | ||||||||
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Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “oslaicid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language