fúasnad

Old Irish

Etymology

From fo- +‎ uss- +‎ anad.

Noun

fúasnad m (genitive fúasnada)

1. verbal noun of fo·fúasna: disturbance, perturbation
   • 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. 2^d5

     .i. is fuasnad dut menmain-siu tuisled ho ermaissiu firinne trí mrechtrad na tintathach.

     It is a disturbance to your sg mind to fail to reach the truth on account of the variation of the interpreters.

   • 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. 77^d4

     .i. imme·folṅgi fuasnad ⁊ todernam

     i.e. which causes perturbation and hurt.

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	fúasnad	fúasnadL	fúasnadae
Vocative	fúasnad	fúasnadL	fúasnadu
Accusative	fúasnadN	fúasnadL	fúasnadu
Genitive	fúasnadoH, fúasnadaH	fúasnado, fúasnada	fúasnadaeN
Dative	fúasnadL	fúasnadaib	fúasnadaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: fuasnadh, fuaiscneamh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
fúasnad	ḟúasnad	fúasnad 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), “fúasnad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language