adnoí

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Old Irish

Etymology

ad- +‎ Proto-Celtic *nuweti (compare Welsh adnau (“deposit”)), from Proto-Indo-European *new- (“to nod, assent to”). Cognate with Latin adnuō (“to nod assent”).

Pronunciation

Verb

ad·noí (verbal noun aithne)

  1. to entrust (+ do (“to”))
    Synonyms: do·imnai, erbaid, léicid
    • 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. 29d29
      is hé-som ad·roni do Día in fochricc file dó i nnim
      it is he who entrusted God the reward that is for him in Heaven
    • c. 895–901, Vita tripartita Sancti Patricii, published in Bethu Phátraic: The tripartite life of Patrick (1939, Hodges, Figgis), edited and with translations by Kathleen Mulchrone, line 1611
      atnoí do epscop Brón día altrum,
      entrusted to the bishop, Brón, for Brón to raise,

Conjugation

Complex, class A III present, s preterite, a subjunctive
1st sg. 2nd sg. 3rd sg. 1st pl. 2nd pl. 3rd pl. Passive sg. Passive pl.
Present indicative Deut. ad·noí; at·noí (with infixed pronoun t-)
Prot.
Imperfect indicative Deut.
Prot.
Preterite Deut.
Prot.
Perfect Deut. ad·roni
Prot.
Future Deut.
Prot.
Conditional Deut.
Prot.
Present subjunctive Deut. ad·nódar, ad·noodur
Prot.
Past subjunctive Deut.
Prot.
Imperative at·noad (with infixed pronoun t-) aithnid
Verbal noun aithne
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: aithnid
    • Irish: aithin (“to bid, command”)
    • Scottish Gaelic: àithn (“to command, order, bid”)

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
ad·noí
also ad·nnoí 		ad·noí
pronounced with /-n(ʲ)-/ 		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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