gessid

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Old Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From the root of guidid +‎ -id.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

gessid m (genitive gessedo, nominative plural gesidi)

  1. suppliant, supplicant
    • 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. 53c3
      cech oín gessid .i. giges Día
      every single supplicant i.e. who will pray to God

Declension[edit]

Masculine i-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative gessid gessidL gessidiH
Vocative gessid gessidL gessidiH
Accusative gessidN gessidL gessidiH
Genitive gessedoH, gessedaH gessedoH, gessedaH gessideN
Dative gessidL gessidib, gesidib gessidib, gesidib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation[edit]

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

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