resíu
Old Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From ré (“before”) + síu (“this”), the latter being a dative singular neuter of so (“this”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Conjunction edit
resíu
For quotations using this term, see Citations:resíu.
Usage notes edit
The verb following resíu generally is in the independent augmented present or past subjunctive, which for most verbs contain ro-. The main exception is when the verb defectively cannot be augmented, in that case the unaugmented subjunctive appears instead.
- resíu do·ndichsitis asin doíri
- before they had come out of captivity (note do·dichsitis, suppletive augmented past subjunctive of do·tét)
References edit
- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 895, page 553
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “resíu, riasíu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language