adnoí

Old Irish

Etymology

ad- + Proto-Celtic *nuweti (compare Welsh adnau (deposit)), from Proto-Indo-European *new- (to nod, assent to). Cognate with Latin adnuō (to nod assent).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aðˈn͈oːi̯/

Verb

ad·noí (verbal noun aithne)

  1. to entrust (+ do (to))
    Synonyms: do·imnai, erbaid, léicid
    • 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. 29d29
      is hé-som ad·roni do Día in fochricc file dó i nnim
      it is he who entrusted God the reward that is for him in Heaven
    • c. 895–901, Vita tripartita Sancti Patricii, published in Bethu Phátraic: The tripartite life of Patrick (1939, Hodges, Figgis), edited and with translations by Kathleen Mulchrone, line 1611
      atnoí do epscop Brón día altrum,
      [Saint Patrick] entrusted [Macc Ercae macc Draigin] to the bishop, Brón, for Brón to raise,

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: aithnid
    • Irish: aithin (to bid, command)
    • Scottish Gaelic: àithn (to command, order, bid)

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
ad·noí
also ad·nnoí
ad·noí
pronounced with /-n(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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