cenn

Middle Irish edit

cenn m (genitive cinn, plural cenna or cinn)

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

G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 cenn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Celtic *kʷennom, whence also conn (“leader”). Compare Welsh pen, Breton penn.

cenn n (genitive cinn, nominative plural cenna)

head
- 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. 89^c11
  Mani ro{i}ma fora cenn, ní mema forsna bullu.
  If their head is not defeated, the members will not be defeated.
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Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	cenn^N	cenn^N	cenn^L, cenna
Vocative	cenn^N	cenn^N	cenn^L, cenna
Accusative	cenn^N	cenn^N	cenn^L, cenna
Genitive	cinn^L	cenn	cenn^N
Dative	ciunn^L	cennaib	cennaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

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