asoilgi

== Old Irish == === Etymology === From ess- +‎ uss- +‎ léicid, but the precise nature of the preverbs is uncertain. Gordon believes that there is no ess- here, and the prefixes are simply two instances of uss- (compare the verbal noun oslucud, where there is no trace of ess-). === Verb === as·oilgi (verbal noun oslucud) to open Senchas Már, published in Ancient Laws of Ireland: Din Techtugad and Certain Other Selected Brehon Law Tracts (1879, Dublin: Stationery Office), edited and with translations by W. Neilson Hancock, Thaddeus O'Mahony, Alexander George Richey, and Robert Atkinson, vol. 1, p. 6 Antonyms: dúnaid, íadaid ==== Inflection ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ar·osailci ==== Descendants ==== Middle Irish: oslaicid Irish: oscail, foscail Scottish Gaelic: fosgail Manx: foshil === References === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “oslaicid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909], D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 849, pages 525f.; reprinted 2017