ansae
English
editNoun
editansae
Anagrams
editLatin
editNoun
editānsae
Old Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom an- (“un-”) + assae (“easy”).[1]
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editansae (comparative ansu, superlative ansam)
- difficult
- 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. 13a19
- ar is ansæ in ball do thinchosc neich as·berad cenn
- for it is difficult for the member to correct what the head said
- 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. 13a19
Declension
editio/iā-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | ansae | ansae | ansae |
Vocative | ansai | ||
Accusative | ansae | ansai | |
Genitive | ansai | ansae | ansai |
Dative | ansu | ansai | ansu |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
Nominative | ansai | ansai | |
Vocative | ansai ansu* | ||
Accusative | ansai ansu* | ||
Genitive | ansae | ||
Dative | ansaib | ||
Notes | * when substantivized |
Descendants
editMutation
editradical | lenition | nasalization |
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ansae (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-ansae |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
edit- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 872(d), page 544; reprinted 2017
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ansae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language