tánaise

Old Irish

Etymology

Perhaps from to- +‎ ad- +‎ ne- + the root of saidid (“to sit”), from Proto-Celtic *sedeti, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-. A similar formation, prefixed with imm-, underlies imthánad (“alternation”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtaːnisʲe/

Adjective

Old Irish ordinal numbers
 <  1st 2nd 3rd  > 
    Cardinal : dá
    Ordinal : tánaise

tánaise

  1. second
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 159a2
      Air in tan no·labrither in cétni persin ƚ in tánaisi do·adbit ainm hi suidiu.
      For when you say the first person or the second, you show a noun in this.

Inflection

io/iā-stem
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative tánaise tánaise tánaise
vocative tánaisi
accusative tánaise tánaisi
genitive tánaisi tánaise tánaisi
dative tánaisiu tánaisi tánaisiu
plural masculine feminine/neuter
nominative tánaisi tánaisi
vocative tánaisi
tánaisiu*
accusative tánaisi
tánaisiu*
genitive tánaise
dative tánaisib

* when substantivized

Descendants

  • Irish: tánaiste

Mutation

Mutation of tánaise
radical lenition nasalization
tánaise thánaise tánaise
pronounced with /d-/

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

References

  1. ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 398, page 249; reprinted 2017

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