áinsid

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Old Irish

Etymology

From ad·nessa (“to reproach”), calque of Latin accūsātīvus.

Noun

áinsid m

  1. (grammar) accusative case
    • 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. 149a4
      fri áinsid fogní in briathar asberr intelligo
      the verb intelligo is construed with an accusative
    • 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. 23c21
      alaile for laim n-ainsedo
      another agreeing with the accusative

Inflection

Masculine i-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative áinsid — —
Vocative áinsid — —
Accusative áinsidN — —
Genitive áinsedoH, áinsedaH — —
Dative áinsidL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Irish: áinsí

Mutation

Mutation of áinsid
radical lenition nasalization
áinsid
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) 		unchanged n-áinsid

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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