uss-

See also: uss, USS, USs, US$, us's, U.S.S., üss, and ūss

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• oss- (GOI)
• od- (before a stop or m)
• ó-, úa- (before a liquid or n)

Etymology

From a merger of two prefixes.

• One is from Proto-Celtic *uts-, from Proto-Indo-European *úd-s- (“out”).
• Another source is from Proto-Celtic *ouxs-, from Proto-Indo-European *ups, a sigmatic variant of *upó (“up”).

Prefix

uss- (pretonic as-)

1. up, off
2. augment used instead of ro- in a few cases

   com- + uss- + -techtatar → con·oitechtar

   com- + uss- + -malt → con·omalt

   to- + uss- + -baig → ·topaig

   to- + uss- + -bacht → ·tópacht

Derived terms

Old Irish terms prefixed with uss-

Further reading

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 349, pages 525–26