aithgne

Old Irish

Etymology

Verbal noun of ad·gnin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaθʲɣʲnʲe]

Noun

aithgne n (genitive aichinte or aithennta)

1. verbal noun of ad·gnin
2. act of knowing, recognising, perceiving; knowledge, recognition, perception
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 42^b13

     a torbae ara·torsata .i. do aithgniu ┐ etarcnu Dǽ treu

     the use for which they were created, namely, that God might be known and learned through them

   • 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. 19^d9

     ar is hé as eola fri aidgne ind athar

     glosses missit Deus Spiritum Filii sui in corda uestra

3. (figurative) characteristic by which something can be recognised
4. coming to recognise, getting to know
5. recognition (as in recognition of a poet by his patron), generosity

Inflection

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	aithgneN	aithgneL	aithgneL
Vocative	aithgneN	aithgneL	aithgneL
Accusative	aithgneN	aithgneL	aithgneL
Genitive	aithgniL	aithgneL	aithgneN
Dative	aithgniuL	aithgnib	aithgnib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 aithne ("knowing")”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language