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Old Irish
Etymology
From óen (“one”) + fer (“man”).
Pronunciation
Noun
óenar n (genitive oínair)
- one person
- (in the dative, with a possessive determiner) alone, by oneself
- 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. 14d17
coní·árim-se peccad libsi uili, ꝉ ara·tart-sa fortacht dúibsi, arnap trom fuirib for n‑oínur- so that I may not count sin with you all, or so that I may give aid to you lest it be heavy on you by yourselves
Declension
Neuter o-stem
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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Nominative
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óenarN
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Vocative
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óenarN
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Accusative
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óenarN
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Genitive
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oínairL
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Dative
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oínurL
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of óenar
radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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óenar (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
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unchanged
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n-óenar
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “oenar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, pages 160, 173, 243; reprinted 2017