nuíde

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• núide
• nuaide

Etymology

From nuae (“new”) +‎ -de (adjective-forming suffix).

Adjective

nuíde (superlative nuídem)

1. newish, novel
   • 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. 3^c16

     .i. i comairbirt núidi iar foisitin hirisse cen pecad.

     i.e. in a new way of life, after confession of faith, without sin.

   • 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. 17^b5

     nuaidi .i. ní nuae ṅdo a n-atrab-sin.

     newish, i.e. that possession is not new to Him.

Inflection

io/iā-stem

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	nuíde	nuíde	nuíde
vocative	nuídi
accusative	nuíde	nuídi
genitive	nuídi	nuíde	nuídi
dative	nuídiu	nuídi	nuídiu
plural	masculine	feminine/neuter
nominative	nuídi	nuídi
vocative	nuídi nuídiu*
accusative	nuídi nuídiu*
genitive	nuíde
dative	nuídib

* when substantivized

Mutation

Mutation of nuíde

radical	lenition	nasalization
nuíde also nnuíde after a proclitic ending in a vowel	nuíde 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), “núaide, núide, nuíde”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language