aín

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ain"

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• aíne

Etymology

From Latin ieiūnium. Cognate with Middle Breton and Breton yun and Middle Welsh un-pryd (literally “fast-time”) (whence modern Welsh ympryd).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aːi̯nʲ]

Noun

aín f (genitive aíne)

1. fasting (period of time when one abstains from or eats very little food)

Declension

Feminine ī-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	aínL	aínL	aíniH
vocative	aínL	aínL	aíniH
accusative	aíniN	aínL	aíniH
genitive	aíneH	aíneL	aíneN
dative	aíniL	aínib	aínib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Derived terms

• aín dídine
• cétaín
• dardaín

Descendants

• Irish: aoine
• Scottish Gaelic: aoine

Mutation

Mutation of aín

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

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

Further reading

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 924, page 573; reprinted 2017
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 aín”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language