remcaisiu

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• remcaissiu

Etymology

rem- (“before”) +‎ aicsiu (verbal noun of ad·cí (“to see”)), a calque of Latin prōvidentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈr͈ʲeβ̃kɨsʲu]

Noun

remcaisiu f (genitive remcaisen)

1. providence
   • 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. 91^b10

     Aní as·berinn cosse, is ed as·bǽr beus .i. derchoíniud du remcaisin Dǽ dínni ón.

     What I used to say up to now, I will say still, namely this is the despair of us for a providence of God.

   • 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. 91^c1

     No scrútain-se, in tan no mbíinn isnaib fochaidib, dús in retarscar cairde ṅDǽ ⁊ a remcaissiu, ⁊ ní tucus-sa insin, in ru·etarscar fa naic.

     I used to consider, when I was in the tribulations, [to see] whether the covenant of God and his providence had departed, and I didn't understand [that,] whether it had departed or not.

Declension

Feminine n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	remcaisiu, remcaissiu	—	—
Vocative	remcaisiu, remcaissiu	—	—
Accusative	remcaisinN, remcaissinN	—	—
Genitive	remcaisen, remcaissen	—	—
Dative	remcaisinL, remcaisiuL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of remcaisiu

radical	lenition	nasalization
remcaisiu also rremcaisiu after a proclitic ending in a vowel	remcaisiu pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/	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), “remcaisiu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 683.1, page 489