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Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From í (deictic particle) + sin (“that”).
Pronunciation
Determiner
ísin
- that (used after the noun, which is preceded by the definite article; emphatic)
- c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 58a
Bíid didiu a confessio hísin do foísitin pecthae, bíid dano do molad, bíid dano do atlugud buide; do foísitin didiu atá-som sunt.- That confessio, then, is for confessing sins, it is also for praising, it is also for offering thanks; here, then, it is for confessing.
See also
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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| ísin
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unchanged
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n-ísin
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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