tánaise

Old Irish

Etymology

Perhaps from to- +‎ ad- +‎ ne- + the root of saidid (“to sit”), from Proto-Celtic *sedeti, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-. A similar formation, prefixed with imm-, underlies imthánad (“alternation”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaːnisʲe/

Adjective

tánaise

1. second
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 159^a2

     Air in tan no·labrither in cétni persin ƚ in tánaisi do·adbit ainm hi suidiu.

     For when you say the first person or the second, you show a noun in this.

Inflection

Descendants

• Irish: tánaiste
  • → English: Tánaiste

Mutation

References

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tánaise”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language