soiscélae

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• soscéle

Etymology

Compare the formation of *soiscél, a much later formation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsosʲkʲeːle]

Noun

soiscélae n or m (genitive soiscélai)

1. (Christianity) the good news, the gospel
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 21^c19

     Is oc precept soscéli at·tó.

     I am preaching the gospel.

2. (Christianity, countable) gospel

Inflection

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	soiscélaeN	soiscélaeL	soiscélaeL
Vocative	soiscélaeN	soiscélaeL	soiscélaeL
Accusative	soiscélaeN	soiscélaeL	soiscélaeL
Genitive	soiscélaiL	soiscélaeL	soiscélaeN
Dative	soiscéluL	soiscélaib	soiscélaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Masculine io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	soiscélae	soiscélaeL	soiscélaiL
Vocative	soiscélai	soiscélaeL	soiscélu
Accusative	soiscélaeN	soiscélaeL	soiscéluH
Genitive	soiscélaiL	soiscélaeL	soiscélaeN
Dative	soiscéluL	soiscélaib	soiscélaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: soiscéla, soscéla
  • Irish: soscéala

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
soiscélae	ṡoiscélae	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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