osnad

Old Irish

Etymology

From uss- +‎ anad (“staying”).

Noun

osnad f

sigh, groan

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	osnad^L	osnaid^L	osnada^H
vocative	osnad^L	osnaid^L	osnada^H
accusative	osnaid^N	osnaid^L	osnada^H
genitive	osnaide^H	osnad^L	osnad^N
dative	osnaid^L	osnadaib	osnadaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

fúasnad

Descendants

Irish: osna
Manx: osney
Scottish Gaelic: osna

Mutation

Mutation of *osnad*
radical	lenition	nasalization
osnad (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	osnad	n-osnad

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