óenar
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From óen (“one”) + fer (“man”)
Pronunciation
Noun
óenar n (genitive oínair)
- one person
- (in the dative, with a possessive determiner) alone, by oneself
- 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. 14d17
- coní·árim-se peccad libsi uili, ꝉ ara·tart-sa fortacht dúibsi, arnap trom fuirib for n‑oínur
- so that I may not count sin with you all, or so that I may give aid to you lest it be heavy on you by yourselves
- 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. 14d17
Declension
Neuter o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | óenarN | — | — |
Vocative | óenarN | — | — |
Accusative | óenarN | — | — |
Genitive | oínairL | — | — |
Dative | oínurL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Irish: aonar
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
óenar (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-óenar |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “oenar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, pages 160, 173, 243