caíngním
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom caín (“good, beautiful”) + gním (“deed”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcaíngním m (genitive caíngníma, nominative plural caíngnímae or caíngnímai)
- good deed
- 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. 29a28
- Ní taibre grád for nech causa a pectha ꝉ a chaíngníma: ar biit alaili and ro·finnatar a pecthe resíu do·coí grád forru; alaili is íarum ro·finnatar. Berir dano fri láa brátha
- You sg should not confer orders on anyone because of his sin or of his good deed: for there are some whose sins are known before their ordination, others whose [sins] are known afterwards. Reference is made, then, to the day of judgment.
- (literally, “…before orders shall go upon 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. 29a28
Declension
editMasculine u-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | caíngním | caíngnímL | caíngnímaeH |
Vocative | caíngním | caíngnímL | caíngnímu |
Accusative | caíngnímN | caíngnímL | caíngnímu |
Genitive | caíngnímoH, caíngnímaH | caíngnímoL, caíngnímaL | caíngnímaeN |
Dative | caíngnímL | caíngnímaib | caíngnímaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
caíngním | chaíngním | caíngním pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “caíngním”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language