Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Celtic *damstis, from Proto-Indo-European *dṃ-sth₂-is (literally house-staying), from *dṓm (home, house).[1]

Noun edit

déis f (genitive désa, nominative plural déisi)

  1. tenant, vassal

Inflection edit

Feminine i-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative déis déisL déisiH
Vocative déis déisL déisiH
Accusative déisN déisL déisiH
Genitive désoH, désaH désoH, désaH déiseN
Dative déisL déisib déisib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
déis déis
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/
ndéis
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ Weiss, Michael (2017 September 26) “The paradigm of the word for ‘house, home’ in Old Irish and related issues”, in Indogermanische Forschungen, volume 122, number 1, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 61–82

Further reading edit