aslena

Old Irish

Etymology

From ess- +‎ lenaid (“to stick, cling”), the idea being that filth sticks to whatever it is making dirty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [asˈl͈ʲena]

Verb

as·lena (verbal noun éillned)

1. to pollute, defile
   • 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. 74^c3

     .i. lasse no·llochtaigtis .i. no·lochtaigtis ⁊ nu·pectaigtis ⁊ as·lentis a menma[e] fadesin tri a[dé]itched ⁊ ingabail inna mbriathar ṅdiut nu·radin-se.

     when they used to commit offences; i.e. they used to commit offences, commit sins, and defile their own minds through the detesting and reproach of the simple words I used to say.

   • c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 1082

     It hé a chúis [aicsin, La.] ara·nglanaiter .i. arná·héilnet a cairpthiu oc dal [dul, La.] for caí ⁊ arná·huilled echradæ [huallnet echraide, La.] oc techt do oenach [oenuch, La.].

     These are the causes due to which they are cleaned, i.e. for chariots to not dirty themselves while going on a visit, and for horses to not dirty themselves while traveling to a fair.

Inflection

Complex, class A I present, s preterite, a subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.	as·lenaimm		as·lena				as·lentar
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.			as·lentis
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.			ru·n-eillestar			asru·lensat	as·rollennad	as·rulenta
	prot.				·reildisem
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.						·éilnet
past subjunctive	deut.							as·lentae
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun		éillned
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Middle Irish: éilnigid
  • Irish: éilligh

Mutation

Mutation of aslena

radical	lenition	nasalization
as·lena	unchanged	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “as-lena”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language