nuae

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *nouyos (compare Welsh newydd, Breton nevez), from Proto-Indo-European *néwos.

Pronunciation

Adjective

nuae

  1. new
    • 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. 18b4
      .i. roth cruind forsa·ndenat na cerda in lestrai nui
      i.e. a round wheel on which the potters make the new vessels
    • 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. 110d12
      Ní nuae dun-ni, a Daé, ind esamnae-so dit ditin-siu.
      This confidence concerning Your sg protection is not new to us, O God.
    • 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. 217a
      Memmbrum naue, droch dub! Ó, ní epur na haill.
      New parchment, bad ink! Oh, I say nothing more.

Inflection

io/iā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative nuae nuae nuae
Vocative nuai
Accusative nuae nuai
Genitive nuai nuae nuai
Dative nuu nuai nuu
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative nuai nuai
Vocative nuai
nuu*
Accusative nuai
nuu*
Genitive nuae
Dative nuaib
Notes * when substantivized

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: núa

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
nuae
also nnuae after a proclitic
ending in a vowel 		nuae
pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/ 		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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