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Old Irish
Etymology
From ess- + lenaid (“to stick, cling”), the idea being that filth sticks to whatever it is making dirty.[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
as·lena (verbal noun éillned)
- to pollute, defile
- 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. 74c3
.i. lasse no·llochtaigtis .i. no·lochtaigtis ⁊ nu·pectaigtis ⁊ as·lentis a menma fadesin tri a[dé]itched ⁊ ingabail inna mbriathar ṅdiut nu·radin-se.- when they used to commit offences; i.e. they used to commit offences, commit sins, and defile their own minds through the detesting and reproach of the simple words I used to say.
- c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 1082
It hé a chúis [aicsin, La.] ara·nglanaiter .i. arná·héilnet a cairpthiu oc dal [dul, La.] for caí ⁊ arná·huilled echradæ [huallnet echraide, La.] oc techt do oenach [oenuch, La.].- These are the causes due to which they are cleaned, i.e. for chariots to not dirty themselves while going on a visit, and for horses to not dirty themselves while traveling to a fair.
Inflection
Complex, class A I present, s preterite, a subjunctive
Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of aslena
| radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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| as·lena
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unchanged
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unchanged
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 761, pages 565–566
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