óenar

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• oínar

Etymology

From óen (“one”) +‎ fer (“man”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoːi̯nər/

Noun

óenar n (genitive oínair)

1. one person
2. (in the dative, with a possessive determiner) alone, by oneself
   • 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. 14^d17

     coní·árim-se peccad libsi uili, ꝉ ara·tart-sa fortacht dúibsi, arnap trom fuirib for n‑oínur

     so that I may not count sin with you all, or so that I may give aid to you lest it be heavy on you by yourselves

Declension

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	óenarN	—	—
Vocative	óenarN	—	—
Accusative	óenarN	—	—
Genitive	oínairL	—	—
Dative	oínurL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• óenurán

Descendants

• Irish: aonar

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
óenar	unchanged	n-óenar
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), “oenar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, pages 160, 173, 243