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Old Irish
Etymology
Univerbation of int (definite article) + í (deictic particle)
Pronunciation
Pronoun
intí
- (s)he who, that which; the one who, the one which; whoever, what(ever)
For quotations using this term, see Citations:intí.
Declension
| Case
|
Singular
|
Plural
|
| Masculine
|
Feminine
|
Neuter
|
Masculine
|
Feminine
|
Neuter
|
| Nominative
|
intí, inthí
|
indí, indhí
|
aní
|
indí, indhí
|
(in)nahí
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| Accusative
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inní
|
(in)nahí
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| Genitive
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indí, indhí
|
(in)nahí
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indí, indhí
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(in)naní
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| Dative
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dondí, dondhí
cossindí, cossindhí
etc.
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donaibí, donaibhí
cosnaibí, cosnaibhí
etc.
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| Note: The dative is used only after a preposition, which forms a contraction with the definite article, e.g. dondí (“to the one who/which”), cossindí (“with the one who/which”), etc.
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Accusative plural after for (“on”): forsnahí
Derived terms
Descendants
Determiner
intí
- used in apposition with proper nouns or common nouns denoting a specific individual to indicate that the individual has already been named previously: the aforementioned but more idiomatically translated into English with an emphatic reflexive such as himself
- 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. 46c7
dona⟨ib⟩hí dïand·rérchoíl intí Día- to those for whom God himself has determined it
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “4 í, hí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 474, page 299