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Where does “-sa” come from?

-sa (Irish) comes from Old Irish -sa — emphatic first-person singular suffix.

-sa (Irish): emphatic suffix of the following persons; used...

Definitions

  1. emphatic suffix of the following persons; used...

Ancestry of “-sa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Irish-saemphatic first-person singular suffix

Words derived from “-sa”

  • tharatsa
  • tharamsa
  • agatsa
  • tríomsa
  • tríotsa
  • dhomsa
  • ionamsa
  • umatsa
  • ionatsa
  • asatsa
  • umamsa
  • faramsa
  • faratsa
  • chugatsa
  • eadramsa
  • eadratsa
  • liomsa
  • ionsormsa
  • ionsortsa
  • fúmsa
  • díomsa
  • asamsa
  • romhamsa
  • domsa
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