gúasacht
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom gúas (“danger, peril”) + -acht.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgúasacht f
- peril
- 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. 47d4–5
- Gigse⟨a⟩-sa .i. mo ṡoírad ar cech gúasacht todochidi.
- I will pray, that is, for my deliverance from every future peril.
- 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. 47d4–5
Declension
edit| Feminine ā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | gúasachtL | gúasachtL | gúasachtaH |
| Vocative | gúasachtL | gúasachtL | gúasachtaH |
| Accusative | gúasachtN | gúasachtL | gúasachtaH |
| Genitive | gúasachtaeH | gúasachtL | gúasachtN |
| Dative | gúasachtL | gúasachtaib | gúasachtaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
edit| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| gúasacht | gúasacht pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/ |
ngúasacht |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gúasacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language