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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish aín, aíne (“fast, period of fasting”) (originally as an ascetic practice, as opposed to troscad (“coercive fasting”)), from Latin ieiūnium (“fast”).
Pronunciation
Noun
aoine f (genitive singular aoine, nominative plural aointe)
- (archaic) fast, fasting (period of abstaining from food or drink); shortage, deficiency; scarcity, want
- Synonym: troscadh
- (archaic) abstinence
Declension
- (fast, fasting; shortage, deficiency; scarcity, want): aoineadh
Derived terms
See also
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| aoine
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n-aoine
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haoine
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not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aoine”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 aín”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish aín, aíne (“fast, period of fasting”).
Pronunciation
Noun
aoine f (genitive singular aoine, plural aoine)
- fast, fast day
- diet
- O aoine gu anmhainn. ― Too much dieting is a bad thing.
- Alternative form of Dihaoine.
Mutation