colnide

Old Irish

Etymology

colinn +‎ -ide

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkol͈n͈iðʲe/

Adjective

colnide

1. corporeal
2. carnal
   • 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. 2^c10

     ní dunaib hí fo·daimet a n‑imdibe colnide tantum mani comolnatar a n‑imdibe rúnde uitiorum

     not to those who suffer the carnal circumcision only unless they fulfill the mystical circumcision of vices

Declension

io/iā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	colnide	colnide	colnide
Vocative	colnidi
Accusative	colnide	colnidi
Genitive	colnidi	colnide	colnidi
Dative	colnidiu	colnidi	colnidiu
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	colnidi	colnidi
Vocative	colnidi colnidiu*
Accusative	colnidi colnidiu*
Genitive	colnide
Dative	colnidib
Notes	* when substantivized

Descendants

• Middle Irish: collaide
  • Irish: collaí
  • Scottish Gaelic: collaidh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
colnide	cholnide	colnide 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), “colnaide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 348, page 222