fáithsine

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• faissine
• fáitsine

Etymology

From fáith +‎ -sine.

Noun

fáithsine f

1. prophecy, augury
   • 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. 30^b23: fáitsine
   • 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. 89^b11: ind faithsine

Usage notes

In earlier literature, refers to both pagan soothsaying and scriptural prophecy. Later used only for scriptural prophecy only, pagan soothsaying being termed fáidhedóracht.

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	fáithsineL	fáithsiniL	fáithsini
Vocative	fáithsineL	fáithsiniL	fáithsini
Accusative	fáithsiniN	fáithsiniL	fáithsini
Genitive	fáithsine	fáithsineL	fáithsineN
Dative	fáithsiniL	fáithsinib	fáithsinib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: fáistine (through metathesis)
  • Irish: fáistine

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
fáithsine	ḟáithsine	fáithsine pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fáitsine, fáithsine”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language