esamain

== Old Irish == === Alternative forms === esámain, esomain, essamain, essamin, hesamain === Etymology === ess- +‎ ómun (“fear”) +‎ -i- (adjective-forming simulfix). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈe.sə.β̃ənʲ/ (Blasse) [ˈe.sa.β̃ɪnʲ] (Griffith) [ˈe.sə.β̃ɨnʲ] === Adjective === esamain (comparative esamnu) fearless c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 23b7 ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== esamnae === Mutation === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “es(s)amain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language