felsub

Old Irish

Etymology

From Latin philosophus, ultimately from Ancient Greek φιλόσοφος (philósophos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɸʲel.suβ]

Noun

felsub m

1. philosopher
   • 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. 27^a10

     Ar is he besad felsub, etarcert di dúlib et saigid forru et neb-chretem a n-ad·[f]iadar di Crist.

     For this is [the] use for philosophers, to dissertate concerning the elements, and to dispute over them, and not to believe what is declared of Christ.

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	felsub	felsubL	felsuibL
Vocative	felsuib	felsubL	felsubuH
Accusative	felsubN	felsubL	felsubuH
Genitive	felsuibL	felsub	felsubN
Dative	felsubL	felsubaib	felsubaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: fellsam
  • Irish: fealsamh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
felsub	ḟelsub	felsub pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
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), “fellsam”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language