guin

See also: Guin and -guin

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gʷoni, whence also Middle Welsh gwan (“blow, stroke”), Welsh gwân.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡunʲ/

Noun

guin n (genitive gona)

1. verbal noun of gonaid: wounding
   • 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. 133^a4

     Is ansu cech todǽrnam a nguin cosind loscud .i. a nguin cosind saigit áin.

     Wounding with the burning (i.e. wounding with the fiery arrow) is more grievous than any torture.

Inflection

Neuter i-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	guinN	guinN	guineL
Vocative	guinN	guinN	guineL
Accusative	guinN	guinN	guineL
Genitive	gonoH, gonaH	gonoH, gonaH	guineN
Dative	guinL	guinib	guinib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: guin f
  • Irish: goin
  • Scottish Gaelic: goin
  • Manx: guinn

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
guin	guin pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/	nguin
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), “guin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language