Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From uss- +‎ uss- +‎ léiciud.

Noun

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oslucud m

  1. verbal noun of as·oilgi: opening
    • 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. 46b5
      .i. arna·beth imresan imm oslucud inna [ca]thrach.
      i.e. so that there might be no contention about the opening of the city.

Inflection

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Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative oslucud oslucudL oslaictheH
Vocative oslucud oslucudL oslaicthiu
Accusative oslucudN oslucudL oslaicthiu
Genitive oslaictheoH, oslaictheaH oslaictheoL, oslaictheaL oslaictheN
Dative oslucudL oslaicthib oslaicthib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: oslucud, oslugud, oslocud

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
oslucud
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-oslucud
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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