Old Irish

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Etymology

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From óen +‎ -tu.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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óentu m

  1. oneness, unity
    • 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. 7d10
      Do·adbadar sund trá causa pro qua scripta est æpistola .i. irbága ro·bátar leosom eter desciplu et debe; óentu immurgu eter a magistru.
      Here, then is shown the reason for which the epistle was written, i.e. they had had contentions and disagreements between the disciples; unity, however, among their masters.

Inflection

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Masculine t-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative óentu
Vocative óentu
Accusative óentidN, oíntaidN
Genitive óentad, óentath
Dative óentidL, oíntaidL, óentuL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
óentu
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-óentu
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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