uisse
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Old Irish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
uisse
- right (complying with justice, morally correct)
- Synonym: cóir
- 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. 34a4
- ɔrabad cech bráthair post alium .i. is huisse ce ru·samaltar fri Críst
- so that each brother should be after the other, i.e. it is right that he be compared to Christ
Declension[edit]
| io/iā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | uisse | uisse | uisse |
| Vocative | uissi | ||
| Accusative | uisse | uissi | |
| Genitive | uissi | uisse | uissi |
| Dative | uissiu | uissi | uissiu |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | uissi | uissi | |
| Vocative | uissi uissiu* | ||
| Accusative | uissi uissiu* | ||
| Genitive | uisse | ||
| Dative | uissib | ||
| Notes | * when substantivized | ||
Mutation[edit]
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| uisse | unchanged | n-uisse |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading[edit]
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 uisse”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language