gním

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gnīmus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡʲnʲiːṽ/

Noun

gním m (genitive gnímo, nominative plural gnímae or gnímai)

1. verbal noun of gníid
2. action, deed
   • 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. 12^c9

     Ní dénim gnímu macthi.

     I do not do childish deeds.

   • 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. 31^b23

     in bélrai .i. is and atá gním tengad isind huiliu labramar-ni

     of speech, i.e. the action of the tongue is in all that we say

   Synonyms: bann, bert, glond, icht

3. work

   Synonyms: fognam, lubair, monar, opar, othar, saethar

4. doing, making

   Synonyms: dénmas, dénum

Declension

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	gním	gnímL	gnímaeH
Vocative	gním	gnímL	gnímu
Accusative	gnímN	gnímL	gnímu
Genitive	gnímoH, gnímaH	gnímoL, gnímaL	gnímaeN
Dative	gnímL	gnímaib	gnímaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: gníomh
• Scottish Gaelic: gnìomh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
gním	gním pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/	ngním
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.