ansae

English

Noun

ansae

1. plural of ansa

Anagrams

• AANES, ASEAN

Latin

Noun

ānsae

1. inflection of ānsa:
   1. nominative/vocative plural
   2. genitive/dative singular

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• ansa, insae, inse

Etymology

From an- (“un-”) ‎ assae (“easy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /an͈se/

Adjective

ansae (comparative ansu, superlative ansam)

1. difficult

   Synonyms: doraid, doirb

   • 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. 13^a19

     ar is ansæ in ball do thinchosc neich as·berad cenn

     for it is difficult for the member to correct what the head said

Declension

io/iā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ansae	ansae	ansae
Vocative	ansai
Accusative	ansae	ansai
Genitive	ansai	ansae	ansai
Dative	ansu	ansai	ansu
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	ansai	ansai
Vocative	ansai ansu*
Accusative	ansai ansu*
Genitive	ansae
Dative	ansaib
Notes	* when substantivized

Descendants

• Middle Irish: ansa
  • Irish: ansa

Mutation

Mutation of ansae

radical	lenition	nasalization
ansae (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-ansae

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ansae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language