colinn

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kolanis, from Proto-Indo-European *kel(H)-, whence also Proto-Germanic *huldą (“corpse, carcass”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkolɨn͈ʲ]

Noun

colinn f (genitive colno, nominative plural colnai)

  1. the body
  2. flesh
  3. corpse
  4. carcass

Inflection

Feminine i-stem
singular dual plural
nominative colinn colinnL colnaiH
vocative colinn colinnL colnaiH
accusative colinnN colinnL colnaiH
genitive colnoH, colnaH colnoH, colnaH colnaeN
dative colinnL colnaib colnaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Quotations

  • 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. 32d10
    Is úaidib ar·roít colinn et it hé do·rraidchiúir.
    It is from them he has received flesh, and it is they whom he has redeemed.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: colainn
  • Manx: callin
  • Scottish Gaelic: colann

Mutation

Mutation of colinn
radical lenition nasalization
colinn cholinn colinn
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

  1. ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 95

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