oínfer
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Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From óen (“one”) + fer (“man”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]oínḟer m
- one person
- 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. 11a4
- Rethit huili, et is oínḟer gaibes búaid diib inna chomalnad.
- All run, and it is one man of them who gets victory for completing it (lit. in its completion).
- 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. 11a4
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Irish: aoinfhear
Mutation
[edit]Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
oínḟer (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-oínḟer |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |