adnoí

Old Irish

Etymology

ad- +‎ Proto-Celtic *nuweti (compare Welsh adnau (“deposit”)), from Proto-Indo-European *new- (“to nod, assent to”). Cognate with Latin adnuō (“to nod assent”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aðˈn͈oːi̯/

Verb

ad·noí (verbal noun aithne)

  1. to entrust (+ do (“to”))
    Synonyms: do·imnai, erbaid, léicid
    • 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. 29d29
      is hé-som ad·roni do Día in fochricc file dó i nnim
      it is he who entrusted God the reward that is for him in Heaven
    • c. 895–901, Vita tripartita Sancti Patricii, published in Bethu Phátraic: The tripartite life of Patrick (1939, Hodges, Figgis), edited and with translations by Kathleen Mulchrone, line 1611
      atnoí do epscop Brón día altrum,
      [Saint Patrick] entrusted [Macc Ercae macc Draigin] to the bishop, Brón, for Brón to raise,

Conjugation

Complex, class A III present, s preterite, a subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut. ad·noí; at·noí (with infixed pronoun t-)
prot.
imperfect indicative deut.
prot.
preterite deut.
prot.
perfect deut. ad·roni
prot.
future deut.
prot.
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut. ad·nódar, ad·noodur
prot.
past subjunctive deut.
prot.
imperative at·noad (with infixed pronoun t-) aithnid
verbal noun aithne
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: aithnid
    • Irish: aithin (“to bid, command”)
    • Scottish Gaelic: àithn (“to command, order, bid”)

Mutation

Mutation of ad·noí
radical lenition nasalization
ad·noí
also ad·nnoí		 ad·noí
pronounced with /n-/		 ad·noí
also ad·nnoí

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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