aoinne

Champenois

Etymology

From Old French aveine, from Latin avēna (“oats”).

Noun

aoinne

  1. (Auve) oat

References

  • Tarbé, Prosper (1851) Recherches sur l'histoire du langage et des patois de Champagne‎[1] (in French), volume 1, Reims, page 108

Irish

Pronunciation

Pronoun

aoinne

  1. alternative form of aon duine (“anyone; no one”)
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:
      Ní raibh aoinne cloinne age n-a muinntir ach í agus do mhéaduigh sin uirrim agus grádh na ndaoine don inghean óg so.
      Her parents had no children (lit. “no one of children”) but her, and that increased the esteem and love of the people for this young girl.

Mutation

Mutated forms of aoinne
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aoinne n-aoinne haoinne not applicable

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

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