aslena

== Old Irish == === Etymology === From ess- +‎ lenaid (“to stick, cling”), the idea being that filth sticks to whatever it is making dirty. === Verb === as·lena (verbal noun éilled) to pollute, defile 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. 74c3 c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 1082 ==== Inflection ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle Irish: éilnigid Irish: éilligh === Mutation === === References === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “as-lena”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language