caíngním
Old Irish
Etymology
From caín (“good, beautiful”) + gním (“deed”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkaːi̯nʲɣʲnʲiːṽ]
Noun
caíngním m (genitive caíngníma, nominative plural caíngnímae or caíngnímai)
- good deed
- 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. 29a28
- Ní taibre grád for nech causa a pectha ꝉ a chaíngníma: ar biit alaili and ro·finnatar a pecthe resíu do·coí grád forru; alaili is íarum ro·finnatar. Berir dano fri láa brátha
- You sg should not confer orders on anyone because of his sin or of his good deed: for there are some whose sins are known before their ordination, others whose [sins] are known afterwards. Reference is made, then, to the day of judgment.
- (literally, “…before orders shall go upon them…”)
- 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. 29a28
Declension
| Masculine u-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | caíngním | caíngnímL | caíngnímaeH |
| Vocative | caíngním | caíngnímL | caíngnímu |
| Accusative | caíngnímN | caíngnímL | caíngnímu |
| Genitive | caíngnímoH, caíngnímaH | caíngnímoL, caíngnímaL | caíngnímaeN |
| Dative | caíngnímL | caíngnímaib | caíngnímaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| caíngním | chaíngním | caíngním pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “caíngním”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language