fadesin
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /faˈdʲesʲinʲ/
Pronoun
fadesin
- Synonym of féin (“self; one's own”)
- 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. 95a5
- Is ed as·bertis b⟨a⟩ a nert fadesin imme·folnged choscur doib, níbu Día.
- That is, they used to say that it was their own strength that produced victory for them, not God
- 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. 95a5
Usage notes
The difference between the féin/céin set and the fadéin/cadéin set appears to be that the latter are contrastively reflexive (‘oneself as opposed to someone else’) while the former do not suggest any contrast. The difference between the f- forms and the c- forms may be that the latter have a connotation of ‘even/also oneself’ that the former do not have.[1]
Inflection
| féin | fadéin | céin | cadéin | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 sg. | féin | fadéin | céin | cadéin |
| 2 sg. | féin | fadéin | — | — |
| 3 sg. m./n. | fes(s)in, feis(s)in féin | fades(s)in, fadeis(s)in fadéne | ces(s)in, ceis(s)in | cades(s)in, cadeis(s)in |
| 3 sg. f. | fes(s)in, feis(s)in, fissin fes(s)ine, feisine, feis(s)ne | fadisin fade(is)sne | — | — |
| 1 pl. | fes(s)ine | fanis(s)in | — | canisin |
| 2 pl. | fes(s)in, feis(s)in feis(s)ne | fanis(s)in | — | — |
| 3 pl. | fes(s)in, feis(s)in fes(s)ine, feisine, feis(s)ne | fades(s)in, fadeis(s)in, fedesin fades(s)ine, fadeisine, fadeis(s)ne | ceisne | cades(s)in, cadeis(s)in cades(s)ine, cadeisine, cadesne |
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| fadesin | ḟadesin | fadesin pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Peter Schrijver (1997) Studies in the History of Celtic Pronouns and Particles (Maynooth Studies in Celtic Linguistics; II), Maynooth: The Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, →ISBN, §§ III.2, III.4, pages 72, 78–83
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fadéin, féin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003), D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 485, pages 306–7
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 153