déicsiu

déicsiu

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʲeːkʲ.sʲu/

Noun

déicsiu f (genitive déicsen)

1. verbal noun of do·éccai: look, gaze, sight
   • 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. 15^a20

     .i. ni foílsitis deícsin a gnúsa iar mbid dó oc accaldim Dé oc tindnacul rec[h]to dó.

     They would not bear to look at his face after he had been conversing with God, when the Law was given to him.

   • 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. 25^a29

     .i. níba deícsiu cen torbe dano.

     It will not be a sight without benefit, then.

   • 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. 56^a17

     du deicsin soilse Dǽ

     to behold the light of God (glosses Latin videndi luminis (“seeing the light”))

   • 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. 82^a7

     .i. ni denti duibsi ani-sin air ata nech du bar ṅdeicsin .i. Dia.

     That must not be done by you pl, because there is someone watching you all, i.e. God.

   • Tecosca Cormaic, published in Tecosca Cormaic. The Instructions of King Cormaic Mac Airt (1909, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, page 3

     Deicsiu cach thrúaig

     cognizance of every wretched one [in a list of positive qualities for a king]

Inflection

Feminine n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	déicsiu	—	—
Vocative	déicsiu	—	—
Accusative	déicsinN	—	—
Genitive	déicsen	—	—
Dative	déicsinL, déicsiuL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
déicsiu	déicsiu pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndéicsiu
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), “déicsiu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language