gúasacht
Old Irish
Etymology
From gúas (“danger, peril”) + -acht.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɡuːa̯saxt]
Noun
gúasacht f
- peril
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 47d4–5
- Gigse⟨a⟩-sa .i. mo ṡoírad ar cech gúasacht todochidi.
- I will pray, that is, for my deliverance from every future peril.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 47d4–5
Declension
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | gúasachtL | gúasachtL | gúasachtaH |
| vocative | gúasachtL | gúasachtL | gúasachtaH |
| accusative | gúasachtN | gúasachtL | gúasachtaH |
| genitive | gúasachtaeH | gúasachtL | gúasachtN |
| dative | gúasachtL | gúasachtaib | gúasachtaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
Mutation
| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| gúasacht | gúasacht pronounced with /ɣ-/ |
ngúasacht |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gúasacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language