uss-

See also: uss, USS, USs, US$, us's, U.S.S., üss, and ūss

Old Irish

Alternative forms
  • oss- (GOI)
  • od- (before a stop or m)
  • ó-, úa- (before a liquid or n)

Etymology

From a merger of two prefixes.

Prefix

uss- (pretonic as-)

  1. up, off
  2. augment used instead of ro- in a few cases[1][2]
    com- + uss- + -techtatar → con·oitechtar
    com- + uss- + -malt → con·omalt
    to- + uss- + -baig → ·topaig
    to- + uss- + -bacht → ·tópacht

Derived terms
Old Irish terms prefixed with uss-

References
  1. Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 532, page 344
  2. Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 477

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