asoilgi

Old Irish

Etymology

From ess- +‎ uss- +‎ léicid, but the precise nature of the preverbs is uncertain.[1]

Verb

as·oilgi (verbal noun oslucud)

  1. to open
    • Senchas Már, published in Ancient Laws of Ireland: Din Techtugad and Certain Other Selected Brehon Law Tracts (1879, Dublin: Stationery Office), edited and with translations by W. Neilson Hancock, Thaddeus O'Mahony, Alexander George Richey, and Robert Atkinson, vol. 1, p. 6
      […] co n-oslaictea dorus i(th)frin […]
      […] and the gates of Hell were opened […]
    • c. 750-800 Torche na nDessi from Laud 610, published in "The Expulsion of the Déssi", Ériu 3 (1907), edited by Kuno Meyer, pp. 135-142, line 177
      Ni sreccell [probably a scribal mistake for the in fricill seen in Rawl.] ⁊ cartait-som in ingin Dil ⁊ as·oelc a forud remib.
      The gift, Dil's daughter divided it and she opened the residence before them. [Basically, Dil is offered some wine as a peace offering. His daughter Eithne lets two of Dil's foster-sons see him while he is drunk.]
    • c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe, TBC-YBL 393
      Íadais indala súil connarbo lethiu andás cró snáthaidi; as·oilg alaile comba mor béolu fid-chóich.
      He closed one eye so that it was no wider than the eye of a needle; he opened the other until it was as large as the mouth of a mead-goblet.
    Antonyms: dúnaid, íadaid

Inflection

Complex, class A II present, s preterite
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut. as·oilgi
prot.
imperfect indicative deut.
prot.
preterite deut. as·oilc
prot. ·oslaictea
perfect deut.
prot.
future deut.
prot.
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut.
prot.
past subjunctive deut.
prot.
imperative
verbal noun oslucud
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: oslaicid

References

  1. ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) “Urkelt. *li-n-kʷ-e/o- ‘lassen, verlassen’”, in Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, page 455

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