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insce

insce

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Noun

insce f

  1. a saying, speech, statement
    • 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. 6a26
      "isind insci so" glosses in hoc uerbo
    • 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. 25a2
      do láni chétbutho inna huilae insce
      ... of the whole discourse
  2. (grammar) gender
  3. (grammar) pronoun

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

  • baninsce
  • ferinsce

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
insce unchanged n-insce
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • insce” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.