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subae

subae

Old Irish

Noun

subae n

  1. joy, pleasure, happiness, merriment
    • c. 875, 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. 146d2
      "a subae" glosses iubelatio
    • c. 875, 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. 47d2
      "int suibi" glosses iubelationis

Inflection

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

Antonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: subha (joy)

Mutation

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

References

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