insce

Old Irish

Alternative forms

indsce, innsce, inscne

Etymology

Derived from sech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈin͈ʲsʲkʲe]

Noun

insce f

a saying, speech, statement, word
- 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. 6^a26
  isind insci so glosses in hoc uerbo
- 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. 105^b14
  Bed messe .i. no·comallaibthe ⁊ rom·bad fírién insce Dǽ.
  That it would be me, i.e. that the word of God would be fulfilled and would be righteous.
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 25^a2
  I n‑ællug insce biid dictio.
  Dictio is usually in connected speech.
  (literally, “…in the connection of speech”)
(grammar) gender
(grammar) pronoun

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	insce^L	insci^L	insci
Vocative	insce^L	insci^L	insci
Accusative	insci^N	insci^L	insci
Genitive	insce	insce^L	insce^N
Dative	insci^L	inscib	inscib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

baninsce
ferinsce

Descendants

Irish: inscne

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
insce	unchanged	n-insce
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “insce”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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