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Old Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
aís sechmaill m
- (collective) passersby
- 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. 102a15
Itius anúas ⁊ dus·claid anís; air ní foircnea in fíni hithe neich di anúas, amal du·ngní int aís sechmaill as·mbeir-som .i. air is cuit adaill ad·n-ellat-sidi in fíni du thabairt neich doib dia thorud.- They eat it from above and he roots it up from below; for it does not exterminate the vine to eat of anything of it from above, as do the passers-by whom he speaks of, i.e. for it is only a passing visit that they make to the vine to take something for themselves of its fruit.
Mutation
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Nasalization
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aís sechmaill
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
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unchanged
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n-aís sechmaill
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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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