-siu
Old Irish
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edit-siu
- Alternative form of -su used after slender consonants and front vowels
- 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. 132a10
- ci a{s}⟨r⟩id·roga⟨r⟩t dímsa do guidi-siu, a Dǽ
- although he has forbidden me to pray to you, O God
- 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. 132a10
See also
editOld Irish emphatic suffixes
| Person | Emphatic suffixes |
|---|---|
| 1 sg. | -se, -sa |
| 2 sg. | -siu, -so, -su |
| 3 sg. m.n. | -som, -sem, -sium, -sum, -sam |
| 3 sg. f. | -si |
| 1 pl. | -ni, -nai, -sni |
| 2 pl. | -si |
| 3 pl. | -som, -sem, -sium, -sum, -sam |
| Emphatic suffixes are added to nouns modified by a possessive determiner to emphasize the possessor; to verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns to emphasize the subject; and to inflected prepositions to emphasize the object. | |