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Old Irish
Etymology
From ess- + ·gnin.
Pronunciation
Verb
as·gnin (verbal noun ecnae)
- to know, recognize, understand
- Synonyms: ad·gnin, in·gnin
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 209b13
Iss ed inso nád chumaing ara·n-ísar and, coní enggnatar gníma, acht asa·gnintar.- This is what cannot be found there, that actions are not understood, but they are understood.
Inflection
In the St Gall glosses, the preverb is usually disyllabic asa- instead of the usual as-.
Complex, class B V present, reduplicated preterite, a subjunctive
Mutation
Mutation of asgnin
| radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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| as·gnin
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as·gnin
pronounced with /-ɣ(ʲ)-/
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as·ngnin
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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), “as·gnin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 745.3, pages 546–547