cóennae

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• cóenna
• cáenna

Etymology

Maybe from Proto-Celtic *kowinos, a vṛddhi-derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ḱwoinom (“mud, dirt”) (whence Latin caenum). Cognate with Breton kevni and Corsican kewny.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoːi̯n͈e/, [ˈkoːi̯n͈ɘ]

Noun

cóennae (gender unknown, genitive unattested, no plural)

1. moss

Derived terms

• cáennach (“mossy”)
  • ⇒ Middle Irish: *cáennach (“moss”)
    • Irish: caonach
    • Scottish Gaelic: còinneach
    • Manx: keynnagh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cóennae	chóennae	cóennae pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
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), “cáenna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language, retrieved 8 August 2024
• Vendryes, Joseph (1987) “cáenna”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume C, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page C-7

• Matasović, Ranko (2011 December) “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović‎^[2], Zagreb, page 23