ansae

ansae

1. plural of ansa

• AANES, ASEAN

ānsae

1. inflection of ānsa:
   1. nominative/vocative plural
   2. genitive/dative singular

• ansa, insae, inse

From an- (“un-”) +‎ assae (“easy”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /an͈se/

ansae (comparative ansu, superlative ansam)

1. difficult

   Synonyms: doraid, doirb

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13^a19

     ar is ansæ in ball do thinchosc neich as·berad cenn

     for it is difficult for the member to correct what the head said

• Middle Irish: ansa
  • Irish: ansa

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ansae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language