duine

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish duine < Proto-Celtic *gdonyo- (“human, person”) < Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰom-yo- (“earthling, human”), a derivation of *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈd̪ˠɪnʲə]

Noun

duine m (genitive duine, nominative plural daoine)

1. A person, a human being.

Declension

Declension of duine

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative duine daoine Vocative a dhuine a dhaoine Genitive duine daoine Dative duine daoine

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an duine na daoine Genitive an duine na ndaoine Dative leis an duine don duine leis na daoine

Derived terms

• duine ar iarraidh
• duine gan phósadh
• duine muinteartha
• neamhdhuine
• osduine
• seanduine

Related terms

• daonna

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
duine	dhuine	nduine
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

• doén

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gdonyo- (“human, person”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰom-yo- (“earthling, human”), a derivation of *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”) (whence also Old Irish dú (“place, spot”)). For the parallel semantical development of the noun for "man, human" from the cognate nominal stem for "earth", confer also Latin homō (“man, person”), Old Lithuanian žmuõ (“man”) and Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌼𐌰 (guma).

Noun

duine m (nominative plural doíni)

1. person

Synonyms

• persa

Descendants

• Irish: duine
• Manx: dooinney
• Scottish Gaelic: duine

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish duine, from Proto-Celtic *gdonyo- (“human, person”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰom-yo- (“earthling, human”), a derivation of *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /t̪ɯɲə/

Noun

duine m (genitive duine, plural daoine)

1. man
2. person, body, individual
   • 1911 (Birlinn Limited), Edward Dwelly: The Illustrated Gaelic-English Dictionary:

     Duine gun mhath gun chron, is motha a chron na a mhath. - A man that's neither good nor ill is more ill than good.

3. husband
4. one

   Is fheudar dha duine a-riamh a dh'aithneachadh na thathar a' dèanamh le fhèin an duine - One must always know what one is doing with oneself

   Chan eil fios aig duine a riamh - One never knows

Derived terms

• duine dubh (“Negro”)
• duin'-eigin (“somebody (male)”)
• nuair a thig air duine, thig air uile (“it never rains but it pours”)