uisse
Old Irish
editAlternative forms
editPronunciation
editAdjective
edituisse
- right (complying with justice, morally correct)
- Synonym: cóir
- 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. 34a4
- ɔrabad cech bráthair post alium .i. is huisse ce ru·samaltar fri Críst
- so that each brother should be after the other, i.e. it is right that he be compared to Christ
Declension
editio/iā-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | uisse | uisse | uisse |
Vocative | uissi | ||
Accusative | uisse | uissi | |
Genitive | uissi | uisse | uissi |
Dative | uissiu | uissi | uissiu |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
Nominative | uissi | uissi | |
Vocative | uissi uissiu* | ||
Accusative | uissi uissiu* | ||
Genitive | uisse | ||
Dative | uissib | ||
Notes | * when substantivized |
Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
uisse (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-uisse |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 uisse”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language