áinsid
Old Irish
Etymology
From ad·nessa (“to reproach”), calque of Latin accūsātīvus.
Noun
áinsid m
- (grammar) accusative case
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 149a4
- fri áinsid fogní in briathar asberr intelligo
- the verb intelligo is construed with an accusative
- 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. 23c21
- alaile for laim n-ainsedo
- another agreeing with the accusative
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 149a4
Inflection
| Masculine i-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | áinsid | — | — |
| Vocative | áinsid | — | — |
| Accusative | áinsidN | — | — |
| Genitive | áinsedoH, áinsedaH | — | — |
| Dative | áinsidL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
- Irish: áinsí
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| áinsid | unchanged | n-áinsid |
| 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), “2 áinsid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language