anduine

anduine

Irish

Alternative forms

• aduine

Etymology

From Old Irish anduine (“person of low estate, poor person, wretch; evil person, person of ill intent”); synchronically, an- (“in-, un-, not; bad, unnatural”) +‎ duine (“person”).

Pronunciation

• (Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈɑn̪ˠɪnə/

Noun

anduine m (genitive singular anduine, nominative plural andaoine)

1. inhuman, wicked, person

   Synonyms: do-dhuine, rógaire

Declension

Declension of anduine

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative anduine andaoine Vocative a anduine a andaoine Genitive anduine andaoine Dative anduine andaoine

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-anduine na handaoine Genitive an anduine na n-andaoine Dative leis an anduine don anduine leis na handaoine

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
anduine	n-anduine	handuine	t-anduine
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• "anduine" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “anduine” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 9.