esséirge

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• eiséirge, eisséirge, eséirge, heséirge, esérge, esǽrge, æsærge, hesséirge, essérge

Etymology

From ess- +‎ éirge, a calque of Latin resurrectiō, itself a calque of Ancient Greek ἀνάστασις (anástasis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈesʲeːrʲɣʲe]

Noun

esséirge n (genitive esséirgi)

1. verbal noun of as·éirig
2. resurrection

Declension

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	esséirgeN	—	—
Vocative	esséirgeN	—	—
Accusative	esséirgeN	—	—
Genitive	esséirgiL	—	—
Dative	esséirgiuL, esséirguL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Quotations

• 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. 3^c2

  tri chretim i nÍsu ꝉ isin beothu i táa Ísu íar n-esséirgu

  through belief in Jesus or in the life in which Jesus is after resurrection

• 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. 4^a27

  Is hed didiu for·théit in spirut, in tain guidme-ni inducbáil dïar corp et dïar n-animm iar n-esséirgiu.

  Then the spirit helps when we pray for glory for our body and for our soul after resurrection.

• 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^b19

  Is súaichnid, manid chretid esséirge Críst et mortuorum, níb·noíbfea for n-ires in chruth sin et níb·scara fri bar pecthu.

  It is obvious, unless you pl believe in the resurrection of Christ and the dead, your faith will not sanctify you in that way and does not separate you from your sins.

Derived terms

• comeisséirge (“co-resurrection”)

Descendants

• Irish: aiséirí

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
esséirge (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-esséirge
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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