miscuis

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From a derivative of Proto-Celtic *kassis (hatred), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂d-.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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miscuis f

  1. hatred
    • 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. 7d8
      Do·beir-som ainm bráthre doib, arná·epret is ara miscuis in cúrsachad, act is ara seircc.
      He calls them brothers, lest they should say the reprimand is because of hatred for them, but it is because of love for them.

Declension

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The genitive singular is unattested, but its nominative, accusative and dative singulars are all miscuis. It is usually assumed to be an i-stem. The n-stem forms in later Irish are by analogy with accuis (cause), which is justified in having n-stem inflection due to its derivation from Latin occāsiō.

Feminine i-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative miscuis
Vocative miscuis
Accusative miscuisN
Genitive miscseoH, miscseaH
Dative miscuisL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: miscais

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
miscuis
also mmiscuis after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
miscuis
pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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