felsub
Old Irish
Etymology
From Latin philosophus, ultimately from Ancient Greek φιλόσοφος (philósophos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfʲel.suv/
Noun
felsub m
- philosopher
- 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. 27a10
- Ar is he besad felsub, etarcert di dúlib et saigid forru et neb-chretem a n-ad·[f]iadar di Crist.
- For this is [the] use for philosophers, to dissertate concerning the elements, and to dispute over them, and not to believe what is declared of Christ.
- 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. 27a10
Inflection
| Masculine o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | felsub | felsubL | felsuibL |
| Vocative | felsuib | felsubL | felsubuH |
| Accusative | felsubN | felsubL | felsubuH |
| Genitive | felsuibL | felsub | felsubN |
| Dative | felsubL | felsubaib | felsubaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
- Middle Irish: fellsam
- Irish: fealsamh
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| felsub | ḟelsub | felsub pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- “fellsam”, in Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors, eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language, 2019