esamain
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- esámain, esomain, essamain, essamin, hesamain
Etymology
ess- + ómun (“fear”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈesaṽɨnʲ]
Adjective
esamain (comparative esamnu)
- fearless
- 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. 23b7
- Hóre am essamin-se precepte asmo chuimriug, is lia de creitfess.
- Since I am fearless in preaching out of my captivity, the more it is who will believe.
- 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. 23b7
Declension
| i-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | esamain | esamain | esamain |
| Vocative | esamain | ||
| Accusative | esamain | esamain | |
| Genitive | esamain | esamnae | esamain |
| Dative | esamain | esamain | esamain |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | esamnai | esamnai | |
| Vocative | esamnai | ||
| Accusative | esamnai | ||
| Genitive | esamain* esamnae | ||
| Dative | esamnaib | ||
| Notes | *not when substantivized | ||
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| esamain | unchanged | n-esamain |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “es(s)amain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language