fíne
Old Irish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
fíne f (genitive fíne, nominative plural fíni)
- vine
- 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. 102a15
- Itius anúas ⁊ dus·claid anís; air ní foircnea in fíni hithe neich di anúas, amal du·ngní int aís sechmaill as·mbeir-som .i. air is cuit adaill ad·n-ellat-sidi in fíni du thabairt neich doib dia thorud.
- They eat it from above and he roots it up from below; for it does not exterminate the vine to eat of anything of it from above, as do the passers-by whom he speaks of, i.e. for it is only a passing visit that they make [lit: ‘that they visit’] to the vine to take something for themselves of its fruit.
- 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. 102a15
Inflection
Feminine iā-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | fíneL | fíniL | fíni |
Vocative | fíneL | fíniL | fíni |
Accusative | fíniN | fíniL | fíni |
Genitive | fíne | fíneL | fíneN |
Dative | fíniL | fínib | fínib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
fíne | ḟíne | fíne pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fíne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language