aslena
Old Irish
Etymology
From ess- + lenaid (“to stick, cling”), the idea being that filth sticks to whatever it is making dirty.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [asˈl͈ʲena]
Verb
as·lena (verbal noun éillned)
- to pollute, defile
- 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. 74c3
- .i. lasse no·llochtaigtis .i. no·lochtaigtis ⁊ nu·pectaigtis ⁊ as·lentis a menma[e] fadesin tri a[dé]itched ⁊ ingabail inna mbriathar ṅdiut nu·radin-se.
- when they used to commit offences; i.e. they used to commit offences, commit sins, and defile their own minds through the detesting and reproach of the simple words I used to say.
- c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 1082
- It hé a chúis [aicsin, La.] ara·nglanaiter .i. arná·héilnet a cairpthiu oc dal [dul, La.] for caí ⁊ arná·huilled echradæ [huallnet echraide, La.] oc techt do oenach [oenuch, La.].
- These are the causes due to which they are cleaned, i.e. for chariots to not dirty themselves while going on a visit, and for horses to not dirty themselves while traveling to a fair.
- 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. 74c3
Inflection
Complex, class A I present, s preterite, a subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Deut. | as·lenaimm | as·lena | as·lentar | |||||
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| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | as·lentis | |||||||
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| Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Perfect | Deut. | ru·n-eillestar | asru·lensat | as·rollennad | as·rulenta | ||||
| Prot. | ·reildisem | ||||||||
| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | ·éilnet | ||||||||
| Past subjunctive | Deut. | as·lentae | |||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | éillned | ||||||||
| Past participle | |||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Descendants
- Middle Irish: éilnigid
- Irish: éilligh
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| as·lena | unchanged | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 566
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “as-lena”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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