céssad

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• césad, cǽsad, césath

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʲeːsað]

Noun

céssad m (genitive césto)

1. verbal noun of césaid
2. suffering, torment
3. (Christianity) the Passion
   • 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. 19^b6

     Ro·pridchad dúib céssad Críst amal ad·cethe ꝉ fo·rócrad dúib amal bid fíadib no·crochthe.

     Christ’s Passion has been preached to you as though it were seen; or it has been announced to you as if he had been crucified before you.

Declension

Masculine u-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	céssad	céssadL	céstaeH
vocative	céssad	céssadL	céstu
accusative	céssadN	céssadL	céstu
genitive	céstoH, céstaH	céstoL, céstaL	céstaeN
dative	céssadL	céstaib	céstaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of céssad

radical	lenition	nasalization
céssad	chéssad	céssad pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

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), “césad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language