-sem

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sem"

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sʲeβ̃]

Suffix

-sem

  1. alternative form of -som used after slender consonants and front vowels

See also

Old Irish emphatic suffixes
person emphatic suffixes
1 sg -se, -sa
2 sg -siu, -so, -su
3 sg m or n -som, -sem, -sium, -sum, -sam
3 sg f -si
1 pl -ni, -nai, -sni
2 pl -si
3 pl -som, -sem, -sium, -sum, -sam
Emphatic suffixes are added to nouns modified by a possessive determiner to emphasize the possessor; to verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns to emphasize the subject; and to inflected prepositions to emphasize the object.
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