aslena
Old Irish
Etymology
Formed with ess-. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Anything to do with lenaid?”)
Verb
as·lena (verbal noun éillned)
- to pollute, defile
- 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. 74c3
- .i. lasse no·llochtaigtis .i. no·lochtaigtis ⁊ nu·pectaigtis ⁊ as·lentis a menma[e] fadesin tri a[dé]itched ⁊ ingabail inna mbriathar ṅdiut nu·radin-se.
- when they used to commit offences; i.e. they used to commit offences, commit sins, and defile their own minds through the detesting and reproach of the simple words I used to say.
- c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 1082
- It hé a chúis [aicsin, La.] ara·nglanaiter .i. arná·héilnet a cairpthiu oc dal [dul, La.] for caí ⁊ arná·huilled echradæ [huallnet echraide, La.] oc techt do oenach [oenuch, La.].
- These are the causes due to which they are cleaned, i.e. for chariots to not dirty themselves while going on a visit, and for horses to not dirty themselves while traveling to a fair.
- 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. 74c3
Inflection
Complex, class A I present, s preterite, a subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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| Present indicative | Deut. | as·lenaimm | as·lena | as·lentar | |||||
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| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | as·lentis | |||||||
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| Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Perfect | Deut. | ru·n-eillestar | asru·lensat | as·rollennad | as·rulenta | ||||
| Prot. | ·reildisem | ||||||||
| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | ·éilnet | ||||||||
| Past subjunctive | Deut. | as·lentae | |||||||
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| Verbal noun | éillned | ||||||||
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| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| as·lena also as·llena | as·lena pronounced with /-l(ʲ)-/ | 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), “as-lena”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language