Old Irish

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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déniu

  1. comparative degree of dían
    • 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. 112b12
      Is déniu ad·ciam húa ṡúlib risíu ro·cloammar in fogur húa chluasaib, ut est is toísigiu ad·ciam teilciud in béla resíu ro·cloammar a guth sidi.
      We see more quickly with the eyes before we hear the sound with the ears, ut est we see the throwing of the axe sooner before we hear the sound of this.

Mutation

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