insce

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• inscne
• innsce
• indsce

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

Derived from sech

Noun

insce f

1. a saying, speech, statement
   • 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. 6^a26

     "isind insci so" glosses in hoc uerbo

   • 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. 25^a2

     do láni chétbutho inna huilae insce

     ... of the whole discourse

2. (grammar) gender
3. (grammar) pronoun

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• baninsce
• ferinsce

Descendants

• Irish: inscne

Mutation

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

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