incoisig

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• in·cosaig

Etymology

From ind- +‎ com- +‎ seichid (“to declare, assert”).

Verb

in·coisig (prototonic ·inchoisig, verbal noun inchosc)

1. to signify, indicate
   • c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, published in Táin Bó Cúailnge. Recension I (1976, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Cecile O'Rahilly, TBC-I 410

     Incoisc-siu dam-sa, ced leth a·tá Emain?

     Point out to me, in what direction is Emain?

   • 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. 116^d3

     .i. in digal do·mbeir-som, is ed in·chosaig a frecṅdarcus.

     i.e. the punishment which He inflicts, it is that which indicates His presence.

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 9^a27

     .i. ní·inchoisig in son a folad cétne .i. in·choisged riam, iar ṅdígbail in tinfith.

     i.e. the sound does not signify the same substance - i.e. which it signified previously - after taking away the aspiration.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, s future, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			in·cosaig; in·choissig (relative)
	Prot.			·inchoisig			·inchoisget
Imperfect indicative	Deut.			in·choisged (relative)
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Deut.		in·coisis
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.			in·coississed
	Prot.
Imperative			incoisc
Verbal noun		inchosc
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “in-coisig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language