aillsiu
Old Irish
Etymology
Of obscure origin. Possibly related to the source of Latin algeo (“I am cold”), but this is "morphologically unsatisfactory."[1] However, compare allas (“perspiration, sweat”).
Noun
aillsiu n or f
- sore, tumor, abscess, ulcer
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 30b13
- amal tuthle nó ailsin glosses cancer
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 30b13
References
- Stüber, K. (1998). The Historical Morphology of N-stems in Celtic. Ireland: Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, p. 129
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “aillsiu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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