éscae

See also: escae

Old Irish

éscae n (genitive éscai)

moon
Synonym: ré
lunar month
Synonym: mí éscai
- c. 850 Glosses on the Carlsruhe Beda, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 10–30, ]
  Ar is airchenn ṁbes salt hi ciunn nóidécdi mad i ndib ṅ‑uarib deac nammá bas laigu cach mí aescai oldaas trichtaige. Is ed didiu slándliged salto noichtiche co lleuth du árim in ę́scu.
  For it is certain that there should be a leap at the end of the nineteen-years-cycle if it is by twelve hours only that every lunar month is less than a space of thirty days. This, then, is the healthy law of the leap, to reckon 29½ days in the lunar month.

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	éscae^N	—	—
Vocative	éscae^N	—	—
Accusative	éscae^N	—	—
Genitive	éscai^L	—	—
Dative	éscu^L	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation of *éscae*
radical	lenition	nasalization
éscae (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-éscae

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.