aithgne

Old Irish

Etymology

Verbal noun of ad·gnin

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈaθʲɣʲnʲe]

Noun

aithgne n (genitive aichinte or aithennta)

  1. verbal noun of ad·gnin
  2. act of knowing, recognising, perceiving; knowledge, recognition, perception
    • 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. 42b13
      a torbae ara·torsata .i. do aithgniu ┐ etarcnu Dǽ treu
      the use for which they were created, namely, that God might be known and learned through them
    • 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. 19d9
      ar is hé as eola fri aidgne ind athar
      glosses missit Deus Spiritum Filii sui in corda uestra
  3. (figurative) characteristic by which something can be recognised
  4. coming to recognise, getting to know
  5. recognition (as in recognition of a poet by his patron), generosity

Inflection

Neuter io-stem
singular dual plural
nominative aithgneN aithgneL aithgneL
vocative aithgneN aithgneL aithgneL
accusative aithgneN aithgneL aithgneL
genitive aithgniL aithgneL aithgneN
dative aithgniuL aithgnib aithgnib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Irish: aithne
  • Manx: enney
  • Scottish Gaelic: aithne

Mutation

Mutation of aithgne
radical lenition nasalization
aithgne
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)		 aithgne n-aithgne

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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