núíadnisse

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• núḟíadnisse

Etymology

From nuae (“new”) +‎ fíadnisse (“testimony”). Calque of Latin Novum Testamentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˌn͈uːˈiːa̯ðnɨsʲe]

Noun

núíadnisse m (genitive núíadnissi)

1. New Testament
   • 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. 26^a8

     Seiss i tempul amal do·n-essid Críst; ꝉ do·géntar aidchumtach tempuil less, et pridchibid smactu rechto fetarlicce, et gébtit Iudei i n-apid, et ɔ·scéra rect núíadnissi.

     He will sit in the temple as Christ sat; or rebuilding of the temple will be done by him, and he will preach the institutes of the law of the Old Testament, and the Jews will accept him as lord, and he will destroy the law of the New Testament.

   • 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. 24^d24

     Ro·légsat canóin f⟨e⟩tarlaici ⁊ núḟíadnissi amal runda·légsam-ni, acht ronda·saíbset-som tantum.

     They have read the canon of the Old Testament and of the New Testament as we have read it, except only that they have perverted it.

Declension

Masculine io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	núíadnisse	—	—
Vocative	núíadnissi	—	—
Accusative	núíadnisseN	—	—
Genitive	núíadnissiL	—	—
Dative	núíadnissiuL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
núíadnisse also nnúíadnisse after a proclitic	núíadnisse pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “núḟiadnaise”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language