éis
See also: Appendix:Variations of "eis"
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish éis (“track, trace”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸanssā, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eːʃ/
Noun
éis
- only used in certain phrases; see derived terms
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *ɸanssā, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eːsʲ/
Declension
The word is not well enough attested outside of the prepositional phrases listed under Derived terms below to allow a declension class to be stated with certainty. The dative singular appears as both éis and éisi, suggesting a fluctuation between ā-stem and ī-stem declension.
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| éis | unchanged | n-éis |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 121
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 éis”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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