áinsid

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Old Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From ad·nessa (to reproach), calque of Latin accūsātīvus.

Noun[edit]

áinsid m

  1. (grammar) accusative case
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 149a4
      fri áinsid fogní in briathar asberr intelligo
      the verb intelligo is construed with an accusative
    • 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. 23c21
      alaile for laim n-ainsedo
      another agreeing with the accusative

Inflection[edit]

Masculine i-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative áinsid
Vocative áinsid
Accusative áinsidN
Genitive áinsedoH, áinsedaH
Dative áinsidL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants[edit]

  • Irish: áinsí

Mutation[edit]

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

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