Íssu
See also: issu
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin Iēsūs, from Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs), from Hebrew יֵשׁוּעַ (yĕšuaʿ).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Íssu (m, invariable)
- Jesus
- 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. 3c2
- tri chretim i nÍsu ꝉ isin beothu i táa Ísu iar n-esséirgu
- through belief in Jesus or in the life in which Jesus is after resurrection
- 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. 3c2
Descendants
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
Íssu (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | nÍssu |
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), “1 Ís(s)u, Ísa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language