noí

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *nawan, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n͈oːi̯/

Numeral

Old Irish cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : noí     Ordinal : nómad     Male personal : nónbar

noí

1. nine

Descendants

• Irish: naoi
• Manx: nuy
• Scottish Gaelic: naoi

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “noí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language