ísin
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Old Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From í (deictic particle) + sin (“that”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Determiner
[edit]ísin
- that (used after the noun, which is preceded by the definite article; emphatic)
- c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 58a
- Bíid didiu a confessio hísin do foísitin pecthae, bíid dano do molad, bíid dano do atlugud buide; do foísitin didiu atá-som sunt.
- That confessio, then, is for confessing sins, it is also for praising, it is also for offering thanks; here, then, it is for confessing.
- c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 58a
See also
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| ísin (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-ísin |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
[edit]- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 475.2, pages 300–1; reprinted 2017 (Please provide a date or year)