inunn

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• hinon, hinonn, hinunn, innon, innonn, inon, inonn, inun, sinonn, sinunn

Etymology

From the same Proto-Celtic root *sind- as in (“the”), sin (“that”), and sund (“here”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈinun͈/

Adjective

inunn (invariable)

1. the same
   • 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

     ɔrop inonn cretem bes hi far cridiu et a n-as·beraid hó bélib

     so that the belief which is in your pl heart and what you utter with [your] lips may be the same

Descendants

• Irish: ionann
• Scottish Gaelic: ionann

Mutation

Mutation of inunn

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

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), “inunn, in(n)onn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 484, pages 305–6; reprinted 2017