óentu

Old Irish

Etymology

From óen +‎ -tu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoːi̯n͈tu/

Noun

óentu m

1. oneness, unity
   • 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. 7^d10

     Do·adbadar sund trá causa pro qua scripta est æpistola .i. irbága ro·bátar leosom eter desciplu et debe; óentu immurgu eter a magistru.

     Here, then is shown the reason for which the epistle was written, i.e. they had had contentions and disagreements between the disciples; unity, however, among their masters.

Inflection

Masculine t-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	óentu	—	—
vocative	óentu	—	—
accusative	óentidN, oíntaidN	—	—
genitive	óentad, óentath	—	—
dative	óentidL, oíntaidL, óentuL	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of óentu

radical	lenition	nasalization
óentu (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-óentu

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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