ansae

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English

Noun

ansae

  1. plural of ansa

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

ānsae

  1. inflection of ānsa:
    1. nominative/vocative plural
    2. genitive/dative singular

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From an- (un-) +‎ assae (easy).

Pronunciation

Adjective

ansae (comparative ansu, superlative ansam)

  1. difficult
    Synonyms: doraid, doirb
    • 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. 13a19
      ar is ansæ in ball do thinchosc neich as·berad cenn
      for it is difficult for the member to correct what the head said

Declension

io/iā-stem
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative ansae ansae ansae
vocative ansai
accusative ansae ansai
genitive ansai ansae ansai
dative ansu ansai ansu
plural masculine feminine/neuter
nominative ansai ansai
vocative ansai
ansu*
accusative ansai
ansu*
genitive ansae
dative ansaib

* when substantivized

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: ansa

Mutation

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

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

References

  1. ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 872(d), page 544; reprinted 2017

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