nuíde

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• núide
• nuaide

Etymology

From nuae (“new”) +‎ -de (adjective-forming suffix).

Adjective

nuíde (superlative nuídem)

1. newish, novel
   • 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. 3^c16

     .i. i comairbirt núidi iar foisitin hirisse cen pecad.

     i.e. in a new way of life, after confession of faith, without sin.

   • 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. 17^b5

     nuaidi .i. ní nuae ṅdo a n-atrab-sin.

     newish, i.e. that possession is not new to Him.

Inflection

io/iā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	nuíde	nuíde	nuíde
Vocative	nuídi
Accusative	nuíde	nuídi
Genitive	nuídi	nuíde	nuídi
Dative	nuídiu	nuídi	nuídiu
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	nuídi	nuídi
Vocative	nuídi nuídiu*
Accusative	nuídi nuídiu*
Genitive	nuíde
Dative	nuídib
Notes	* when substantivized

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
nuíde also nnuíde after a proclitic	nuíde pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/	unchanged
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), “núaide, núide, nuíde”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language