núíadnisse

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• núḟíadnisse

Etymology

From nuae (“new”) +‎ fíadnisse (“testimony”). Calque of Latin Novum Testamentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˌn͈uːˈiːa̯ðnɨsʲe]

Noun

núíadnisse m (genitive núíadnissi)

1. New Testament
   • 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. 26^a8

     Seiss i tempul amal do·n-essid Críst; ꝉ do·géntar aidchumtach tempuil less, et pridchibid smactu rechto fetarlicce, et gébtit Iudei i n-apid, et ɔ·scéra rect núíadnissi.

     He will sit in the temple as Christ sat; or rebuilding of the temple will be done by him, and he will preach the institutes of the law of the Old Testament, and the Jews will accept him as lord, and he will destroy the law of the New Testament.

   • 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. 33^a15

     Fomnid-si, a phopul núíednissi, ar ce dud·rónath ní di maith fri maccu Israhél…

     Take heed, O people of the New Testament, for although some good has been done to the children of Israel…

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 24^d24

     Ro·légsat canóin f⟨e⟩tarlaici ⁊ núḟíadnissi amal runda·légsam-ni, acht ronda·saíbset-som tantum.

     They have read the canon of the Old Testament and of the New Testament as we have read it, except only that they have perverted it.

Declension

Masculine io-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	núíadnisse	—	—
vocative	núíadnissi	—	—
accusative	núíadnisseN	—	—
genitive	núíadnissiL, núíednissiL	—	—
dative	núíadnissiuL	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Mutation

Mutation of núíadnisse

radical	lenition	nasalization
núíadnisse also nnúíadnisse after a proclitic ending in a vowel	núíadnisse pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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), “núḟiadnaise”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language