adais
Old Irish
Etymology
Uncertain. Contains ad-, which disappears in the prototonic forms similarly to ad·ágathar (“to fear”).
Verb
ad·ais (prototonic ·ais)
- to fear
- c. 760, Blathmac mac Con Brettan, published in "A study of the lexicon of the poems of Blathmac Son of Cú Brettan" (2017; PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth), edited and with translations by Siobhán Barrett, stanza 267
- Scarfaid – mairg nád·ais a thnú – caírcha gela fri mindu.
- He will separate – woe the one who does not fear his wrath – bright sheep from goats.
- Synonym: ad·ágathar
- c. 760, Blathmac mac Con Brettan, published in "A study of the lexicon of the poems of Blathmac Son of Cú Brettan" (2017; PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth), edited and with translations by Siobhán Barrett, stanza 267
- to hate (especially when contrasted with caraid (“to love”))
- c. 700–800, Táin Bó Cúailnge, published in Táin Bó Cúailnge. Recension I (1976, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Cecile O'Rahilly, TBC-I page 46
- "Cia t'ainm-siu?" olsé. "Nachit aiss, nachit chara — Bude mac Báin," olsé.
- "What's your name?" [Cú Chulainn] said. "One who hates you not, who loves you not, Buide mac Báin," he said.
- Antonym: caraid
- c. 700–800, Táin Bó Cúailnge, published in Táin Bó Cúailnge. Recension I (1976, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Cecile O'Rahilly, TBC-I page 46
Inflection
Complex, class B II present
1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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Present indicative | Deut. | ad·ais | ad·aiset | ||||||
Prot. | ·ais | ||||||||
Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
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Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
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Perfect | Deut. | ||||||||
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Future | Deut. | ||||||||
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Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
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Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
ad·ais | unchanged | ad·n-ais |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “adais”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language