subae

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *subwiyom, from *su- (good) +‎ *-bwi- (being) +‎ *-om (verbal noun suffix), literally being good. Compare the formation of the antonym dubae (sorrow, grief, literally being bad).[1]

Noun

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subae n

  1. joy, pleasure, happiness, merriment
    • c. 808, Félire Oengusso, April 1; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:
      co ngaib as mó subae: féil de félib Máire.
      [Ambrose] takes what is greater happiness - one of Mary's feasts.
    • 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. 146d2
      "a subae" glosses iubelatio
    • 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. 47d2
      "int suibi" glosses iubelationis

Inflection

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Neuter io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative subaeN
Vocative subaeN
Accusative subaeN
Genitive subaiL
Dative subuL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Antonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Irish: subha (joy)

Mutation

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

References

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  1. ^ Uhlich, Jurgen (2002) “Verbal governing compounds (synthetics) in Early Irish and other Celtic languages”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, volume 100, number 3, Wiley, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 403–433

Further reading

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