uisse
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- huisse
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈusʲe/
Adjective
uisse
- right (complying with justice, morally correct)
- 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. 34a4
- ɔrabad cech bráthair post alium .i. is huisse ce ru·samaltar fri Críst
- so that each brother should be after the other, i.e. it is right that he be compared to Christ
- Synonym: cóir
- 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. 34a4
Declension
| io/iā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | uisse | uisse | uisse |
| Vocative | uissi | ||
| Accusative | uisse | uissi | |
| Genitive | uissi | uisse | uissi |
| Dative | uissiu | uissi | uissiu |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | uissi | uissi | |
| Vocative | uissi uissiu* | ||
| Accusative | uissi uissiu* | ||
| Genitive | uisse | ||
| Dative | uissib | ||
| Notes | * when substantivized | ||
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| uisse | unchanged | n-uisse |
| 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), “1 uisse”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language