dínni

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Old Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

dínn +‎ -ni

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

dínni

  1. first-person plural emphatic of di
    • 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. 15d8
      Is dúibsi proficit; ba coïr dúibsi cía do·berthe testas dínni.
      It is you that it benefits; it would be right for you if you gave testimony of us.
    • 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. 91b10
      Aní as·berinn cosse, is ed as·bǽr beus .i. derchoíniud du remcaisin Dǽ dínni ón.
      What I used to say up to now, I will say still, namely that is the despair of us for a providence of God.

Mutation[edit]

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
dínni dínni
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/
ndínni
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.