tánaise

Old Irish

Etymology

Perhaps from to- +‎ ad- +‎ ne- + the root of saidid (“to sit”), from Proto-Celtic *sedeti, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-. A similar formation, prefixed with imm-, underlies imthánad (“alternation”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtaːnisʲe/

Adjective
Old Irish ordinal numbers
 <  1st 2nd 3rd  > 
    Cardinal : dá
    Ordinal : tánaise

tánaise

  1. second
    • 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. 159a2
      Air in tan no·labrither in cétni persin ƚ in tánaisi do·adbit ainm hi suidiu.
      For when you say the first person or the second, you show a noun in this.

Inflection
io/iā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative tánaise tánaise tánaise
Vocative tánaisi
Accusative tánaise tánaisi
Genitive tánaisi tánaise tánaisi
Dative tánaisiu tánaisi tánaisiu
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative tánaisi tánaisi
Vocative tánaisi
tánaisiu*
Accusative tánaisi
tánaisiu*
Genitive tánaise
Dative tánaisib
Notes * when substantivized

Descendants

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
tánaise thánaise tánaise
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Rudolf Thurneysen (1940) A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, § 398, page 249

Further reading
  • “tánaise” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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