intí

See also: inti, Inti, and -inti

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of int (definite article) +‎ í (deictic particle)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [in͈ʲˈtʲiː]

Pronoun

intí

  1. (s)he who, that which; the one who, the one which; whoever, what(ever)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:intí.

Declension
Case Singular Plural
Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative intí, inthí indí, indhí aní indí, indhí (in)nahí
Accusative inní (in)nahí
Genitive indí, indhí (in)nahí indí, indhí (in)naní
Dative dondí, dondhí
cossindí, cossindhí
etc.		 donaibí, donaibhí
cosnaibí, cosnaibhí
etc.
Note: The dative is used only after a preposition, which forms a contraction with the definite article, e.g. dondí (“to the one who/which”), cossindí (“with the one who/which”), etc.

Accusative plural after for (“on”): forsnahí

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Irish: an té
  • Irish: ní (“thing”)

Determiner

intí

  1. used in apposition with proper nouns or common nouns denoting a specific individual to indicate that the individual has already been named previously: the aforementioned but more idiomatically translated into English with an emphatic reflexive such as himself
    • 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. 46c7
      dona⟨ib⟩hí dïand·rérchoíl intí Día
      to those for whom God himself has determined it

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