esamain
Old Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]ess- + ómun (“fear”) + -i- (adjective-forming simulfix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]esamain (comparative esamnu)
- fearless
- 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. 23b7
- Hóre am essamin-se precepte asmo chuimriug, is lia de creitfess.
- Since I am fearless in preaching out of my captivity, the more it is who will believe.
- 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. 23b7
Declension
[edit]| i-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | esamain | esamain | esamain |
| Vocative | esamain | ||
| Accusative | esamain | esamain | |
| Genitive | esamain | esamnae | esamain |
| Dative | esamain | esamain | esamain |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | esamnai | esamnai | |
| Vocative | esamnai | ||
| Accusative | esamnai | ||
| Genitive | esamain* esamnae | ||
| Dative | esamnaib | ||
| Notes | *not when substantivized | ||
Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| esamain (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-esamain |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “es(s)amain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language