honni

French

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -i

Participle

honni (feminine honnie, masculine plural honnis, feminine plural honnies)

  1. past participle of honnir

Further reading

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh honni, from Proto-Celtic *swonnīti, an o-grade iterative formation to *swannati formed after it spawned a neo-root *swenn-. Proto-Celtic *swannati is itself from Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂- (to sound).[1]

Brittonic *hw- (usually from Proto-Celtic *sw-) regularly delabializes to h- before o instead of becoming chw-.

Pronunciation

Verb

honni (first-person singular present honnaf, not mutable)

  1. (transitive) to allege, to claim, to assert
    Synonyms: haeru, taeru

Conjugation

Conjugation (literary)
singular plural impersonal
first second third first second third
present indicative/future honnaf honni honna honnwn honnwch honnant honnir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/
conditional
honnwn honnit honnai honnem honnech honnent honnid
preterite honnais honnaist honnodd honasom honasoch honasant honnwyd
pluperfect honaswn honasit honasai honasem honasech honasent honasid, honesid
present subjunctive honnwyf honnych honno honnom honnoch honnont honner
imperative honna honned honnwn honnwch honnent honner
verbal noun honni
verbal adjectives honedig
honadwy
Conjugation (colloquial)
inflected
colloquial forms
singular plural
first second third first second third
future honna i,
honnaf i
honni di honnith o/e/hi,
honniff e/hi
honnwn ni honnwch chi honnan nhw
conditional honnwn i,
honnswn i
honnet ti,
honnset ti
honnai fo/fe/hi,
honnsai fo/fe/hi
honnen ni,
honnsen ni
honnech chi,
honnsech chi
honnen nhw,
honnsen nhw
preterite honnais i,
honnes i
honnaist ti,
honnest ti
honnodd o/e/hi honnon ni honnoch chi honnon nhw
imperative honna honnwch

Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, pages 607-608

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “honni”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies