fessin

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Pronunciation

Verb

fessin

  1. third-person plural imperfect subjunctive of fer

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *swe- (“oneself”) (from Proto-Indo-European *swé) + *es (“he”) (in the singular) or *ens (“them”) (in the plural) + *sin (anaphoric pronoun).[1] The initial f is from earlier *hw, the lenited form of the Proto-Celtic *sw.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

fessin

  1. Alternative form of féin in the second-person plural and the third-person singular and plural
    • 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. 6b28
      Taiccéra cách dara chen⟨n⟩ fessin.
      Everyone will plead on his own behalf.
    • 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. 51b12
      Ní ind fessin eirbthi, ⁊ nách dó du·aisilbi na nní do·gní, acht is do Dia-
      It is not in himself that he trusts, and it is not to himself that he ascribes whatever he does, but it is to God.

Inflection

féin fadéin céin cadéin
1 sg. féin fadéin céin cadéin
2 sg. féin fadéin — —
3 sg. m./n. fes(s)in, feis(s)in
féin 		fades(s)in, fadeis(s)in
fadéne 		ces(s)in, ceis(s)in cades(s)in, cadeis(s)in
3 sg. f. fes(s)in, feis(s)in, fissin
fes(s)ine, feisine, feis(s)ne 		fadisin
fade(is)sne 		— —
1 pl. fes(s)ine fanis(s)in — canisin
2 pl. fes(s)in, feis(s)in
feis(s)ne 		fanis(s)in — —
3 pl. fes(s)in, feis(s)in
fes(s)ine, feisine, feis(s)ne 		fades(s)in, fadeis(s)in, fedesin
fades(s)ine, fadeisine, fadeis(s)ne 		ceisne cades(s)in, cadeis(s)in
cades(s)ine, cadeisine, cadesne

References

  1. ^ Peter Schrijver (1997) Studies in the History of Celtic Pronouns and Particles (Maynooth Studies in Celtic Linguistics; II), Maynooth: The Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, →ISBN, § III.2, pages 76–77

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