uinnius

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *osnistū, from Proto-Celtic *osnos (compare Welsh onn) and (compare Breton onn), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃es-nos (compare Russian я́сень (jásenʹ), Latin ornus).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈun͈ʲus/

Noun

uinnius f (genitive uinnsenn, nominative plural uinnsinn)

ash tree

Inflection

Feminine n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	uinnius	uinnsinn^L	uinnsinn
Vocative	uinnius	uinnsinn^L	uinnsenna^H
Accusative	uinnsinn^N	uinnsinn^L	uinnsenna^H
Genitive	uinnsenn	uinnsenn^L	uinnsenn^N
Dative	uinnsinn^L, uinnius^L	uinnsennaib	uinnsennaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Scottish Gaelic: uinnseann
⇒ Middle Irish: fuinnseóg
- Irish: fuinseog

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
uinnius	unchanged	n-uinnius
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.