esorcon
Appearance
Old Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- essarcon (Würzburg glosses)
Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]esorcon f (genitive esoircne, nominative plural esaircnea)
- verbal noun of as·oirc
- smiting, beating
- 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. 12d3
- i. bid essarcon aiéir dúib arni·tucfa nech a n-as·berith.
- i.e. it will be a beating of the air by you, for no one will understand what ye will say.
- 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. 131b12
- .i. corrobu bec du essarcnaib fo·rodama[i]r.
- i.e. so that it was few blows that it has endured.
- 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. 12d3
- destruction
- 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. 33a3
- 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. 33a3
- smiting, beating
Inflection
[edit]Feminine ā-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | esorconL | esorcuinL | esaircneaH |
Vocative | esorconL | esorcuinL | esaircneaH |
Accusative | esorcuinN | esorcuinL | esaircneaH |
Genitive | esoircneH | esorconL | esorconN |
Dative | esorcuinL | esaircnib, essarcnaib | esaircnib, essarcnaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
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esorcun (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-esorcun |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Stüber, Karin (2015) “esorcon”, in Die Verbalabstrakta des Altirischen (in German), page 471
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language