-siu

See also: siu, Siu, SIU, siû, siú, and siū

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sʲu]

Suffix

-siu

1. alternative form of -su used after slender consonants and front vowels

Quotations

• 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. 132^a10

  ci a{s}⟨r⟩id·roga⟨r⟩t dímsa do guidi-siu, a Dǽ

  although he has forbidden me to pray to you, O God

See also

Old Irish emphatic suffixes

person	emphatic suffixes
1 sg	-se, -sa
2 sg	-siu, -so, -su
3 sg m or n	-som, -sem, -sium, -sum, -sam
3 sg f	-si
1 pl	-ni, -nai, -sni
2 pl	-si
3 pl	-som, -sem, -sium, -sum, -sam

Emphatic suffixes are added to nouns modified by a possessive determiner to emphasize the possessor; to verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns to emphasize the subject; and to inflected prepositions to emphasize the object.