óenar

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From óen (“one”) +‎ fer (“man”).

Pronunciation

Noun

óenar n (genitive oínair)

  1. one person
  2. (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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative óenarN — —
Vocative óenarN — —
Accusative óenarN — —
Genitive oínairL — —
Dative oínurL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: aonar

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
óenar
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) 		unchanged n-óenar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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