oínfer

Old Irish

Etymology

From óen (“one”) +‎ fer (“man”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oːi̯nʲer/

Noun

oínḟer m

1. one person
   • 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. 11^a4

     Rethit huili, et is oínḟer gaibes búaid diib inna chomalnad.

     All run, and it is one man of them who gets victory for completing it (lit. in its completion).

Derived terms

• óenar

Descendants

• Irish: aoinfhear

Mutation

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