seissed
Middle Irish
Alternative forms
- seised, sesed, sessed
Etymology
From Old Irish seissed.
Adjective
seissed
- sixth
- c. 1000, The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig, section 1, published in Irische Teste, vol. 1 (1880), edited by Ernst Windisch:
- Is í sein int ṡeised bruiden ro·boi i n‑hErind in tan sin […]
- That is one of the six halls that were in Ireland at that time […]
- (literally, “That is the sixth hall that was […] ”)
- c. 1000, The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig, section 1, published in Irische Teste, vol. 1 (1880), edited by Ernst Windisch:
Descendants
- Irish: seiseadh
- Scottish Gaelic: seiseadh
Mutation
| Middle Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| seissed | ṡeissed | unchanged |
| 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), “seissed”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- sessed
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *swexstos, with -ed added by analogy with cóiced.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsʲesʲeð/
Adjective
| < 5th | 6th | 7th > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : sé Ordinal : seissed | ||
seissed
- sixth
Inflection
| o/ā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | seissed | seissed | seissed |
| Vocative | seissid* seissed** | ||
| Accusative | seissed | seissid | |
| Genitive | seissid | seisside | seissid |
| Dative | seissed | seissid | seissed |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | seissid | seisseda | |
| Vocative | seissedu seisseda† | ||
| Accusative | seissedu seisseda† | ||
| Genitive | seissed | ||
| Dative | seissedaib | ||
| Notes | *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative | ||
The form seissid is the only attested inflected form. The trisyllabic forms shown in the table are expected to have undergone syncope and surface as *seiste (genitive singular feminine), *sestu (accusative/vocative plural masculine), *sesta (nominative/vocative/accusative plural feminine/neuter), *sestaib (dative plural), but these are not actually attested.
Descendants
- Middle Irish: seissed, seised, sesed, sessed
- Irish: seiseadh
- Scottish Gaelic: seiseadh
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| seissed | ṡeissed | unchanged |
| 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), “seissed”, 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, page 248