aoinne

Champenois

Etymology

From Old French aveine, from Latin avēna (“oats”).

Noun

aoinne

1. (Auve) oat

References

• Tarbé, Prosper (1851) Recherches sur l'histoire du langage et des patois de Champagne‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Reims, page 108

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈeːnʲə/

Pronoun

aoinne

1. Alternative form of aon duine (“anyone; no one”)
   • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:

     Ní raibh aoinne cloinne age n-a muinntir ach í agus do mhéaduigh sin uirrim agus grádh na ndaoine don inghean óg so.

     Her parents had no children (lit. “no one of children”) but her, and that increased the esteem and love of the people for this young girl.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aoinne	n-aoinne	haoinne	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “aoinne”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 33
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aoinne”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN