uinnius

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *osnistū, from Proto-Celtic *osnos (compare Welsh onn) and (compare Breton onn), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃es-nos (compare Russian я́сень (jásenʹ), Latin ornus).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈun͈ʲus]

Noun

uinnius f (genitive uinnsenn, nominative plural uinnsinn)

ash tree

Inflection

Feminine n-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	uinnius	uinnsinn^L	uinnsinn
vocative	uinnius	uinnsinn^L	uinnsenna^H
accusative	uinnsinn^N	uinnsinn^L	uinnsenna^H
genitive	uinnsenn	uinnsenn^L	uinnsenn^N
dative	uinnsinn^L, uinnius^L	uinnsennaib	uinnsennaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Descendants

⇒ Irish: fuinseog
⇒ Scottish Gaelic: uinnseann

Mutation

Mutation of *uinnius*
radical	lenition	nasalization
uinnius (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	uinnius	n-uinnius

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

Further reading

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