cnú

See also: cnu

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *knūs, cognate with Proto-Germanic *hnuts, Latin nux.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /knuː/

Noun

cnú f (genitive cnó, nominative plural cnói)

nut

Inflection

This noun is traditionally labelled as a one-of-a-kind "feminine u-stem" despite neither inflecting like a u-stem nor originating from one. Instead it inflects as a consonant stem noun resembling the declension of bó (“cow”) with several forms terminating in -i whose locations parallel those of palatalized auslaut consonants of the velar-stem declensions.

Feminine irregular
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	cnú	cnoí^L	cnoí
vocative	cnú	cnoí^L	cnóa
accusative	cnoí^N	cnoí^L	cnóa
genitive	cnó	cnó	cnó^N
dative	cnoí^L	cnóib	cnóib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

cnú frangcach

Descendants

Irish: cnó
Manx: cro
Scottish Gaelic: cnò

Mutation

Mutation of *cnú*
radical	lenition	nasalization
cnú	chnú	cnú pronounced with /ɡ-/

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

References

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cnú”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language