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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *gninuti (“to know”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥néh₃ti (“to know, recognize”).
Pronunciation
Verb
·gnin
- to know (unattested by itself; takes various preverbs to form verbs)
Derived terms
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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| ·gnin
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·gnin
pronounced with /-ɣ(ʲ)-/
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·ngnin
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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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Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “? gninid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 745, pages 546–547