céilsine

Old Irish

Etymology

From céile +‎ -sine.

Noun

céilsine f

status of a céile, relationship of a céile to a flaith, clientship, service, vassalage
- c. 750, The Poems of Blathmac son of Cú Brettan, section 106:
  do iudibh ara chelsini
  in return for being in clientship to Him

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	céilsine^L	—	—
vocative	céilsine^L	—	—
accusative	céilsini^N	—	—
genitive	céilsine	—	—
dative	céilsini^L	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Synonyms

(service, vassalage): géilsine, géilsinecht

See also

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