coíniud

Old Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoːi̯.nʲuð/
  • (Blasse) [ˈkoːi̯.nʲuð]
  • (Griffith) [ˈkoːi̯.nʲøð]

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

Mutation of coíniud

radical	lenition	nasalization
coíniud	choíniud	coíniud pronounced with /ɡ-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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