uinnius

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *osnistū, from Proto-Celtic *osnos (compare Welsh onn) and (compare Breton onn), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃es-nos (compare Russian я́сень (jásenʹ), Latin ornus).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈun͈ʲus]

Noun

uinnius f (genitive uinnsenn, nominative plural uinnsinn)

1. ash tree

Inflection

Feminine n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	uinnius	uinnsinnL	uinnsinn
Vocative	uinnius	uinnsinnL	uinnsennaH
Accusative	uinnsinnN	uinnsinnL	uinnsennaH
Genitive	uinnsenn	uinnsennL	uinnsennN
Dative	uinnsinnL, uinniusL	uinnsennaib	uinnsennaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• ⇒ Irish: fuinseog
• ⇒ Scottish Gaelic: uinnseann

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
uinnius (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-uinnius
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), “uinnius”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language