Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From óen +‎ -tu.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

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 edit

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 edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
óentu unchanged n-óentu
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit