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aithin

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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Irish aithnid, aithnigid, aithintigid (to know, recognise),[2] from aithne, from Old Irish ad·gnin.

Verb

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aithin (present analytic aithníonn, future analytic aithneoidh, verbal noun aithint, past participle aitheanta)

  1. (transitive) know, recognize, identify
    Aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile. (proverb)
    It takes one to know one.
    (literally, “A beetle recognizes another beetle.”)
  2. (transitive) acknowledge
  3. (transitive) distinguish
  4. (transitive) perceive
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Alternative forms
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Derived terms
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  • so-aitheanta (recognizable; easy to distinguish, to discern)

Etymology 2

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From Old Irish aithnid, aithnigid (deliver to, commend, command), from aithne.

Verb

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aithin (present analytic aithníonn, future analytic aithneoidh, verbal noun aithint, past participle aitheanta)

  1. (transitive) bid, command
  2. (transitive, literary) commit, commend (do (to))
Conjugation
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Mutation

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Mutated forms of aithin
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aithin n-aithin haithin not applicable

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

References

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  1. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 24
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 aithnid (‘knows, recognises’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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