coíniud

Old Irish

Etymology

The verbal stem of coínid (“to lament”) +‎ -ad (“u-stem verbal noun suffix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoi̯.nʲuð/

Noun

coíniud m (genitive unattested)

1. verbal noun of coínid: lamentation, mourning
   • 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. 100^a3

     .i. ro·bói a sain-dodcad for cach, connarbú huaín doib coiniud a n-óg.

     There were peculiar misfortunes falling on each of them, so that they had no leisure to mourn over their virgins.

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	coíniud	—	—
Vocative	coíniud	—	—
Accusative	coíniudN	—	—
Genitive	*coíndeoH, *coíndeaH	—	—
Dative	coíniudL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: caíniud
  • Irish: caoineadh
  • Manx: keayney
  • Scottish Gaelic: caoineadh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
coíniud	choíniud	coíniud pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
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), “caíned”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language