Iohain

Old Irish

Etymology

From Late Latin Iōhannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yôḥānān, literally “God is gracious”).

Proper noun

Iohain m

1. John (apostle)
   • 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. 18^d12

     Petur et Iacób et Iohain

     Peter and James and John

Inflection

Masculine indeclinable
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	Iohain	—	—
Vocative	Iohain	—	—
Accusative	Iohain	—	—
Genitive	Iohain	—	—
Dative	Iohain	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: Eoin
• Manx: Eoin
• Scottish Gaelic: Eòin

Mutation

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