remdéicsiu

Old Irish

Etymology

From rem- +‎ déicsiu. Calque of Latin prōvidentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈr͈ʲeṽdʲeːɡʲsʲu]

Noun

remdéicsiu f (genitive remdéicsen)

1. providence
   • 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. 91^a21

     Is hé forcan du·rat-som forsna mmórchol du·rigénsat a námait fris, díltud remdéicsen Dǽ desom, húare nád tarat dígail forsnahí du·rigénsat in⟨na⟩hísin frissium.

     It is the end that he has put on the great sins that his enemies have committed against him, the denial of God’s providence for him, because he has not inflicted punishment on those who have done those things to him.

Inflection

Feminine n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	remdéicsiu	—	—
Vocative	remdéicsiu	—	—
Accusative	remdéicsinN	—	—
Genitive	remdéicsen	—	—
Dative	remdéicsinL, remdéicsiuL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “remdéicsiu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language