céssad

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

céssad m (genitive césto)

  1. verbal noun of césaid
  2. suffering, torment
  3. (Christianity) the Passion
    • 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. 19b6
      Ro·pridchad dúib céssad Críst amal ad·cethe ꝉ fo·rócrad dúib amal bid fíadib no·crochthe.
      Christ’s Passion has been preached to you as though it were seen; or it has been announced to you as if he had been crucified before you.

Declension

Masculine u-stem
singular dual plural
nominative céssad céssadL céstaeH
vocative céssad céssadL céstu
accusative céssadN céssadL céstu
genitive céstoH, céstaH céstoL, céstaL céstaeN
dative céssadL céstaib céstaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of céssad
radical lenition nasalization
céssad chéssad céssad
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

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

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