Old Irish

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Etymology

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The verbal stem of coínid (to lament) +‎ -ad (u-stem verbal noun suffix).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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coíniud m (genitive unattested)

  1. verbal noun of coínid: lamentation, mourning
    • 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. 100a3
      .i. ro·bói a sain-dodcad for cach, connarbú huaín doib coiniud a n-óg.
      There were peculiar misfortunes falling on each of them, so that they had no leisure to mourn over their virgins.

Inflection

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Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative coíniud
Vocative coíniud
Accusative coíniudN
Genitive *coíndeoH, *coíndeaH
Dative coíniudL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: caíniud

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
coíniud choíniud coíniud
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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