innonn

Old Irish

Etymology 1

Assimilated from *innoll, from ind (“in it”) + allae (“yonder”)

Alternative forms

• innunn, innúnn

Pronunciation

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Adverb

innonn

1. there (to that place), thither
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 111^c13

     Is hé ru·fiastar cumachtae inna díglae do·mbi{u}r-siu húa londas, intí du·écigi{gi} is ar trócairi ⁊ censi du·bir-siu forunni siu innahí fo·daimem ré techt innúnn.

     He who will know the power of the punishment which you sg inflict by means of wrath, it is he who will see that it is for the sake of mercy and gentleness that you inflict on us here the things that we suffer before going there.

Descendants

• Middle Irish: innond
  • Irish: anonn
  • Scottish Gaelic: a-nunn, a-null

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “innonn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Etymology 2

Adjective

innonn

1. Alternative form of inunn (“the same”)

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