Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From óen (one) +‎ fer (man).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

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. 11a4
      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 edit

Descendants edit

  • Irish: aoinfhear

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
oínḟer unchanged n-oínḟer
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.