Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From the same Proto-Celtic root *sind- as in (the), sin (that), and sund (here).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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inunn (invariable)

  1. the same
    • 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. 7d10
      ɔrop inonn cretem bes hi far cridiu et a n-as·beraid hó bélib
      so that the belief which is in your pl heart and what you utter with [your] lips may be the same

Descendants

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  • Irish: ionann
  • Scottish Gaelic: ionann

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
inunn
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-inunn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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