tindnacol

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ ind- +‎ anacol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʲin͈dn͈əkəl/, [ˈtʲin͈dn͈akol]

Noun

tindnacol n (genitive tindnacuil)

1. verbal noun of do·indnaig: gift, bestowing
   • 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. 15^a20

     Ní foí⟨l⟩sitis déicsin a gnúsa íar mbid dó oc accaldim Dé, oc tindnacul recto dó.

     They would not have endured the beholding of his face after he had been conversing with God, at the bestowing of the law to him.

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	tindnacolN	—	—
Vocative	tindnacolN	—	—
Accusative	tindnacolN	—	—
Genitive	tindnacuilL	—	—
Dative	tindnaculL, tinnaculL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: tidlacan, tidlacadh, tinlucun
  • Irish: tíolacadh, tionlacan
  • Scottish Gaelic: tiodhlac

Mutation

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

Further reading

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