uinnius

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *osnistū, from Proto-Celtic *osnos (compare Welsh onn) and (compare Breton onn), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃es-nos (compare Russian я́сень (jásenʹ), Latin ornus).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈun͈ʲus]

Noun

uinnius f (genitive uinnsenn, nominative plural uinnsinn)

1. ash tree

Inflection

Feminine n-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	uinnius	uinnsinnL	uinnsinn
vocative	uinnius	uinnsinnL	uinnsennaH
accusative	uinnsinnN	uinnsinnL	uinnsennaH
genitive	uinnsenn	uinnsennL	uinnsennN
dative	uinnsinnL, uinniusL	uinnsennaib	uinnsennaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Descendants

• ⇒ Irish: fuinseog
• ⇒ Scottish Gaelic: uinnseann

Mutation

Mutation of uinnius

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

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