remcaisiu
Old Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
rem- (“before”) + aicsiu (verbal noun of ad·cí (“to see”)), a calque of Latin prōvidentia.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
remcaisiu f (genitive remcaisen)
- providence
- 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. 91b10
- Aní as·berinn cosse, is ed as·bǽr beus .i. derchoíniud du remcaisin Dǽ dínni ón.
- What I used to say up to now, I will say still, namely this is the despair of us for a providence of God.
- 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. 91c1
- No scrútain-se, in tan no mbíinn isnaib fochaidib, dús in retarscar cairde ṅDǽ ⁊ a remcaissiu, ⁊ ní tucus-sa insin, in ru·etarscar fa naic.
- I used to consider, when I was in the tribulations, [to see] whether the covenant of God and his providence had departed, and I didn't understand [that,] whether it had departed or not.
- 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. 91b10
Declension edit
| Feminine n-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | remcaisiu, remcaissiu | — | — |
| Vocative | remcaisiu, remcaissiu | — | — |
| Accusative | remcaisinN, remcaissinN | — | — |
| Genitive | remcaisen, remcaissen | — | — |
| Dative | remcaisinL, remcaisiuL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation edit
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| remcaisiu also rremcaisiu after a proclitic |
remcaisiu pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “remcaisiu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 489