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Old Irish
Pronunciation
Adjective
uisse
- right (complying with justice, morally correct)
- Synonym: cóir
- 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. 34a4
ɔrabad cech bráthair post alium .i. is huisse ce ru·samaltar fri Críst- so that each brother should be after the other, i.e. it is right that he be compared to Christ
Declension
Mutation
Mutation of uisse
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lenition |
nasalization
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uisse
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
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unchanged
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n-uisse
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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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