uss-
See also: uss, USS, USs, US$, us's, U.S.S., üss, and ūss
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- oss- (GOI)
- od- (before a stop or m)
- ó-, úa- (before a liquid or n)
Etymology
From a merger of two prefixes.
- One is from Proto-Celtic *uts-, from Proto-Indo-European *úd-s- (“out”).
- Another source is from Proto-Celtic *ouxs-, from Proto-Indo-European *ups, a sigmatic variant of *upó (“up”).
Prefix
uss- (pretonic as-)
- up, off
- augment used instead of ro- in a few cases[1][2]
- com- + uss- + -techtatar → con·oitechtar
- com- + uss- + -malt → con·omalt
- to- + uss- + -baig → ·topaig
- to- + uss- + -bacht → ·tópacht
Derived terms
Old Irish terms prefixed with uss-
References
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003), D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 532, page 344
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 477
Further reading
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003), D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 349, pages 525–26