sochuide

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Thurneysen derives this from so- (“good”) +‎ cuit (“portion”) +‎ -e.[1] However, the /ð/ poses phonological difficulties.

Pronunciation

Noun

sochuide f (genitive sochuide)

  1. many, multitude, crowd
    • 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. 107a15
      Bid sochaide atrefea indiuts{i}u ⁊ bid fáilid nach oín adid·trefea.
      There will be many who will dwell in thee, and every one will be joyful who will so dwell.
      (literally, “…who will dwell it”)

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
singular dual plural
nominative sochuideL — —
vocative sochuideL — —
accusative sochuidiN — —
genitive sochuide — —
dative sochuidiL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Irish: sochaí[2]

Mutation

Mutation of sochuide
radical lenition nasalization
sochuide ṡochuide unchanged

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, →ISBN, page 1224; reprinted 2017
  2. ^ Hickey, Raymond (2012) “Internally- and Externally-Motivated Language Change”, in Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre, Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy, editors, The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, pages 387–408

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