insce

See also: in sce and in scê

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• indsce, innsce, inscne

Etymology

Derived from the root of seichid (according to Pedersen, who however makes this verb "nur komponiert").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈin͈ʲsʲkʲe]

Noun

insce f

1. 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”)

2. (grammar) gender
3. (grammar) pronoun

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	insceL	insciL	insci
Vocative	insceL	insciL	insci
Accusative	insciN	insciL	insci
Genitive	insce	insceL	insceN
Dative	insciL	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 (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-insce
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), “insce”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language