éscae
See also: escae
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *ēskyom.
Pronunciation
Noun
éscae n (genitive éscai)
- moon
- Synonym: ré
- lunar month
- Synonym: mí éscai
- c. 850 Glosses on the Carlsruhe Beda, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 10–30, [[oldwikisource:Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus/Glosses on Beda (Carlsruhe)#3c{{{3}}}|Bcr. 3c]]
- Ar is airchenn ṁbes salt hi ciunn nóidécdi mad i ndib ṅ‑uarib deac nammá bas laigu cach mí aescai oldaas trichtaige. Is ed didiu slándliged salto noichtiche co lleuth du árim in ę́scu.
- For it is certain that there should be a leap at the end of the nineteen-years-cycle if it is by twelve hours only that every lunar month is less than a space of thirty days. This, then, is the healthy law of the leap, to reckon 29½ days in the lunar month.
Inflection
Neuter io-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | éscaeN | — | — |
Vocative | éscaeN | — | — |
Accusative | éscaeN | — | — |
Genitive | éscaiL | — | — |
Dative | éscuL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
- éscamail (“lunar”)
Descendants
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
éscae (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-éscae |
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), “ésca(e), éisce”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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