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Old Irish
Alternative forms
- oss- (GOI)
- od- (before a stop or m)
- ó-, úa- (before a liquid or n)
Etymology
From a merger of two prefixes.
Prefix
uss- (pretonic as-)
- up, off
- augment used instead of ro- in a few cases
- com- + uss- + -techtatar → con·oitechtar
- com- + uss- + -malt → con·omalt
- to- + uss- + -baig → ·topaig
- to- + uss- + -bacht → ·tópacht
Derived terms
References
- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 532, page 344
- ^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 477
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