uss-

See also: uss, USS, USs, US$, us's, U.S.S., üss, and ūss

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• oss- (GOI)
• od- (before a stop or m)
• ó-, úa- (before a liquid or n)

Etymology

From a merger of two prefixes.

• One is from Proto-Celtic *uts-, from Proto-Indo-European *úd-s- (“out”).
• Another source is from Proto-Celtic *(o)uxs-, from Proto-Indo-European *ups, a sigmatic variant of *upó (“up”).

Prefix

uss- (pretonic as-)

1. up, off
2. augment used instead of ro- in a few cases

   com- + uss- + -techtatar → con·oitechtar

   com- + uss- + -malt → con·omalt

   to- + uss- + -baig → ·topaig

   to- + uss- + -bacht → ·tópacht

Derived terms

Old Irish terms prefixed with uss-

adopair

asoilgi

asboind

comthururas

conocaib

conoscaigi

conosna

conúalai

conutaing

cumgabál

díummusach

díupart

dodíuschi

dodúrig

dofúarat

dofuissim

doíarmórat

doinmlig

doinóla

doopair

doróscai

fofúasna

foopair

foúacair

fúasnad

ócbál

immimgaib

indarbae

indárban

indocbál

opad

oslucud

tíarmóracht

tinól

tocbál

tólae

topur

toschith

turcbál

Further reading

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 349, pages 525–26; reprinted 2017