insce

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See also: in sce and in scê

Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Derived from the root of seichid (according to Pedersen, who however makes this verb "nur komponiert").[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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insce f

  1. a saying, speech, statement, word
    • 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. 6a26
      isind insci so glosses in hoc uerbo
    • 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. 105b14
      Bed messe .i. no·comallaibthe ⁊ rom·bad fírién insce Dǽ.
      That it would be me, i.e. that the word of God would be fulfilled and would be righteous.
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 25a2
      I n‑ællug insce biid dictio.
      Dictio is usually in connected speech.
      (literally, “…in the connection of speech”)
  2. (grammar) gender
  3. (grammar) pronoun

Inflection

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Feminine iā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative insceL insciL insci
Vocative insceL insciL insci
Accusative insciN insciL insci
Genitive insce insceL insceN
Dative insciL inscib inscib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Irish: inscne

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
insce
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-insce
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 814, page 621

Further reading

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