Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

colinn +‎ -ide

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

colnide

  1. corporeal
  2. carnal
    • 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. 2c10
      ní dunaib hí fo·daimet a n‑imdibe colnide tantum mani comolnatar a n‑imdibe rúnde uitiorum
      not to those who suffer the carnal circumcision only unless they fulfill the mystical circumcision of vices

Declension edit

io/iā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative colnide colnide colnide
Vocative colnidi
Accusative colnide colnidi
Genitive colnidi colnide colnidi
Dative colnidiu colnidi colnidiu
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative colnidi colnidi
Vocative colnidi
colnidiu*
Accusative colnidi
colnidiu*
Genitive colnide
Dative colnidib
Notes * when substantivized

Descendants edit

  • Middle Irish: collaide
    • Irish: collaí
    • Scottish Gaelic: collaidh

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
colnide cholnide colnide
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