nídan

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Old Irish

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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nídan (triggers lenition)

  1. first-person plural present indicative negative of is
    • 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. 14c41
      Nídan chumachtig for n‑irisse.
      We are not potent over your faith.

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
nídan
also nnídan after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
nídan
pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.