Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From caín (good, beautiful) +‎ gním (deed).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈkaːi̯nʲɣʲnʲiːṽ]

Noun edit

caíngním m (genitive caíngníma, nominative plural caíngnímae or caíngnímai)

  1. good deed
    • 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. 29a28
      Ní taibre grád for nech causa a pectha ꝉ a chaíngníma: ar biit alaili and ro·finnatar a pecthe resíu do·coí grád forru; alaili is íarum ro·finnatar. Berir dano fri láa brátha
      You sg should not confer orders on anyone because of his sin or of his good deed: for there are some whose sins are known before their ordination, others whose [sins] are known afterwards. Reference is made, then, to the day of judgment.
      (literally, “…before orders shall go upon them…”)

Declension edit

Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative caíngním caíngnímL caíngnímaeH
Vocative caíngním caíngnímL caíngnímu
Accusative caíngnímN caíngnímL caíngnímu
Genitive caíngnímoH, caíngnímaH caíngnímoL, caíngnímaL caíngnímaeN
Dative caíngnímL caíngnímaib caíngnímaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
caíngním chaíngním caíngním
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit