-isse

• IPA^(key): /is/

-isse

1. used with a stem to form the first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of -ir verbs

-isse (non-lemma form of noun-forming suffix)

1. used with a stem to form the third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of regular -ire verbs

• -essi, essi, sesi

-isse

1. Simple perfect infinitive ending

-isse

1. alternative form of -yssh

-isse

1. alternative form of -esse

From Late Latin -issa, from Ancient Greek -ῐσσᾰ (-ĭssă)

• IPA^(key): /ˈis.se/

-isse (f)

1. Forms nouns referring to female people. Attested only in the noun abbadisse.

Weak n-stem:

• Middle English: -esse, -es, -ess, -asse, -as, -eyse, -eys, -eis, -isse, -ysse, -iss, -yss, -ys, -is
  • English: -ess

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “-isse”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

-isse n

1. alternative form of -se (abstract suffix)