gnin

See also: Gnin

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gninuti (“to know”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥néh₃ti (“to know, recognize”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡʲnʲin]

Verb

·gnin

1. to know (unattested by itself; takes various preverbs to form verbs)

Derived terms

• ad·gnin
• as·gnin
• con·gnin
• etar·gnin
• in·gnin
• remi·asgnin

 

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
·gnin	·gnin pronounced with /-ɣ(ʲ)-/	·ngnin
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), “? gninid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 745, pages 546–547