cnú

See also: cnu

Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Celtic *knūs, cognate with Proto-Germanic *hnuts, Latin nux.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /knuː/

Noun edit

cnú f (genitive cnó, nominative plural cnói)

nut

Inflection edit

This noun is traditionally labelled as a one-of-a-kind "feminine u-stem" despite neither inflecting like a u-stem nor originating from one. Instead it inflects as a consonant stem noun resembling the declension of bó (“cow”) with several forms terminating in -i whose locations parallel those of palatalized auslaut consonants of the velar-stem declensions.

Feminine irregular
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	cnú	cnoí^L	cnoí
Vocative	cnú	cnoí^L	cnóa
Accusative	cnoí^N	cnoí^L	cnóa
Genitive	cnó	cnó	cnó^N
Dative	cnoí^L	cnóib	cnóib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms edit

cnú frangcach

Descendants edit

Irish: cnó
Manx: cro
Scottish Gaelic: cnò

Mutation edit

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

References edit

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