guin
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *gʷoni, whence also Middle Welsh gwan (“blow, stroke”), Welsh gwân.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡunʲ/
Noun
guin n (genitive gona)
- verbal noun of gonaid: wounding
- 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. 133a4
- Is ansu cech todǽrnam a nguin cosind loscud .i. a nguin cosind saigit áin.
- Wounding with the burning (i.e. wounding with the fiery arrow) is more grievous than any torture.
- 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. 133a4
Inflection
| Neuter i-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | guinN | guinN | guineL |
| Vocative | guinN | guinN | guineL |
| Accusative | guinN | guinN | guineL |
| Genitive | gonoH, gonaH | gonoH, gonaH | guineN |
| Dative | guinL | guinib | guinib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| guin | guin pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/ |
nguin |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “guin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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