ingnin
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Old Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
in·gnin (verbal noun ingnae)
- to know, recognize, understand
- 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. 52
- Húad air du·corastar Día deilb mordraige ⁊ fir boíthe forsinní Dauid dia diamlad connach n-ingéuin intí Abimelech cia dud·futhaircair a bas.
- Due to God disguising David in a form of great ruggedness and of a fool, [Abimelech] did not recognize David even as [Abimelech] desired [David's] death.
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 209b13
- Iss ed inso nád chumaing ara·n-ísar and, coní enggnatar gníma, acht asa·gnintar.
- This is what cannot be found there, that actions are not understood, but they are understood.
- 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. 52
Inflection[edit]
Complex, class B V present, reduplicated preterite
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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| Present indicative | Deut. | anda·gniat (corrupted form of *ada·gninat, with infixed pronoun da-) | |||||||
| Prot. | ·enggnatar | ||||||||
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | ingéuin | ||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | ingnae | ||||||||
| Past participle | |||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | ingnaidi | ||||||||
Mutation[edit]
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| in·gnin | in·gnin pronounced with /-ɣ(ʲ)-/ |
in·ngnin |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading[edit]
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “in-gnin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language