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Old Irish
Etymology
From uss- + uss- + léicid.
Verb
as·oilgi (verbal noun oslucud)
- to open
- Senchas Már, published in Ancient Laws of Ireland: Din Techtugad and Certain Other Selected Brehon Law Tracts (1879, Dublin: Stationery Office), edited and with translations by W. Neilson Hancock, Thaddeus O'Mahony, Alexander George Richey, and Robert Atkinson, vol. 1, p. 6
[…] co n-oslaictea dorus i(th)frin […]- and the gates of Hell were opened
- c. 750-800 Torche na nDessi from Laud 610, published in "The Expulsion of the Déssi", Ériu 3 (1907), edited by Kuno Meyer, pp. 135-142, line 177
Ni sreccell [probably a scribal mistake for the in fricill seen in Rawl.] ⁊ cartait-som in ingin Dil ⁊ as·oelc a forud remib.- The gift, Dil's daughter divided it and she opened the residence before them.
- c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe, TBC-YBL 393
Íadais indala súil connarbo lethiu andás cró snáthaidi; as·oilg alaile comba mor béolu fid-chóich.- He closed one eye so that it was no wider than the eye of a needle; he opened the other until it was as large as the mouth of a mead-goblet.
- Antonyms: dúnaid, íadaid
Inflection
Complex, class A II present, s preterite
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oslucud
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