aicsiu

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *adkʷissiyū, verbal noun of *adkʷiseti with the suffix *-tiyū.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈakʲ.sʲu/

Noun

aicsiu f (genitive aicsen)

1. verbal noun of ad·cí

Declension

Feminine n-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	aicsiu	—	—
vocative	aicsiu	—	—
accusative	aicsinN	—	—
genitive	aicsen	—	—
dative	aicsinL, aicsiuL	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• remcaisiu

Descendants

• Classical Gaelic: faigsin, faicsin
  • Irish: feiscint

Mutation

Mutation of aicsiu

radical	lenition	nasalization
aicsiu (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	aicsiu	n-aicsiu

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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