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Old Irish
Etymology
From óen (“one”) + fer (“man”).
Pronunciation
Noun
oínḟer m
- one person
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 11a4
Rethit huili, et is oínḟer gaibes búaid diib inna chomalnad.- All run, and it is one man of them who gets victory for completing it (lit. in its completion).
Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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| oínḟer
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unchanged
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n-oínḟer
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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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