adnoí

Old Irish

Etymology

ad- +‎ Proto-Celtic *nuweti (compare Welsh adnau (“deposit”)), from Proto-Indo-European *new- (“to nod, assent to”). Cognate with Latin adnuō (“to nod assent”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aðˈn͈oːi̯/

Verb

ad·noí (verbal noun aithne)

1. to entrust (+ do (“to”))

   Synonyms: do·imnai, erbaid, léicid

   • 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. 29^d29

     is hé-som ad·roni do Día in fochricc file dó i nnim

     it is he who entrusted God the reward that is for him in Heaven

   • c. 895–901, Vita tripartita Sancti Patricii, published in Bethu Phátraic: The tripartite life of Patrick (1939, Hodges, Figgis), edited and with translations by Kathleen Mulchrone, line 1611

     atnoí do epscop Brón día altrum,

     [Saint Patrick] entrusted [Macc Ercae macc Draigin] to the bishop, Brón, for Brón to raise,

Conjugation

Complex, class A III present, s preterite, a subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.			ad·noí; at·noí (with infixed pronoun t-)
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.			ad·roni
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.			ad·nódar, ad·noodur
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative				at·noad (with infixed pronoun t-)		aithnid
verbal noun		aithne
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Middle Irish: aithnid
  • Irish: aithin (“to bid, command”)
  • Scottish Gaelic: àithn (“to command, order, bid”)

Mutation

Mutation of adnoí

radical	lenition	nasalization
ad·noí also ad·nnoí	ad·noí pronounced with /-n(ʲ)-/	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ad·noí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language