aicsenugud

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• aicsenogod, aicsenogud

Etymology

From accuis +‎ -ugud. In form a verbal noun, though no corresponding verb is attested.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈakʲ.sʲə.nu.ɣuð/
  • (Blasse) [ˈakʲ.sʲe.nu.ɣuð]
  • (Griffith) [ˈakʲ.sʲə.nø.ɣøð]

Noun

aicsenugud m

1. causal connection
2. causality
3. (act of) giving the reason

Quotations

• 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. 47^a8

  Is hé aicsenugud les in quoniam so .i. et in domino sperans rl. .i. is airi fris·racacha-sa· quoniam misericordia rl.

  In his opinion the causal connection of this quoniam is namely et in domino sperans etc.; i.e. therefore I have hoped quoniam misericordia etc.

Mutation

Mutation of aicsenugud

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

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), “aicsenugud”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language