foísitiu

Old Irish

Alternative forms

oísitiu (lenited form)

Etymology

Alteration of fóesam (which persists in the sense ‘protection’) to include the suffix -tiu, under the influence of the near-synonym aititiu (“acknowledging”).^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɸoːi̯sʲidʲiu̯]

Noun

foísitiu f (genitive foísiten, nominative plural foísitin)

verbal noun of fo·sisedar: confession
- c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 58^a
  Bíid didiu a confessio hísin do foísitin pecthae, bíid dano do molad, bíid dano do atlugud buide; do foísitin didiu atá-som sunt.
  That confessio, then, is for confessing sins, it is also for praising, it is also for offering thanks; here, then, it is for confessing.
- 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. 46^b12
  Madach .i. níba madae dam m’oísitiu, air na ní no·gigius, ebarthi Día.
  vain, i.e. my confession will not be vain to me, for whatever I shall pray for, God will grant it.

Declension

Feminine n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	foísitiu	foísitin^L	foísitin
Vocative	foísitiu	foísitin^L	foísitne^H
Accusative	foísitin^N	foísitin^L	foísitne^H
Genitive	foisiten	foisiten^L	foisiten^N
Dative	foísitin^L, foísite	foísitnib	foísitnib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Irish: faoistin
Manx: feyshtyn

Mutation

Mutation of *foísitiu*
radical	lenition	nasalization
foísitiu	ḟoísitiu	foísitiu pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/

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

References

^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 824.2, page 629
^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 430, page 451; reprinted 2017