coíniud

Old Irish

Etymology

The verbal stem of coínid (to lament) +‎ -ad (u-stem verbal noun suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkoi̯.nʲuð/

Noun

coíniud m (genitive unattested)

  1. verbal noun of coínid: lamentation, mourning
    • 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. 100a3
      .i. ro·bói a sain-dodcad for cach, connarbú huaín doib coiniud a n-óg.
      There were peculiar misfortunes falling on each of them, so that they had no leisure to mourn over their virgins.

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
singular dual plural
nominative coíniud
vocative coíniud
accusative coíniudN
genitive *coíndeoH, *coíndeaH
dative coíniudL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: caíniud

Mutation

Mutation of coíniud
radical lenition nasalization
coíniud choíniud coíniud
pronounced with /ɡ-/

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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