asgnin
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [asˈɡʲnʲin]
Verb
as·gnin (verbal noun ecnae)
- to know, recognize, understand
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 209b13
- Iss ed inso nád chumaing ara·n-ísar and, coní enggnatar gníma, acht asa·gnintar.
- This is what cannot be found there, that actions are not understood, but they are understood.
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 209b13
Inflection
In the St Gall glosses, the preverb is usually disyllabic asa- instead of the usual as-.
Complex, class B V present, reduplicated preterite, a subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Deut. | asa·gninaim | asa·gnintar, assa·gnintar | asa·gnintar, as·gniintar | |||||
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| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Preterite | Deut. | as·gén | |||||||
| Prot. | ·acén | ||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | ·ergéoin, ·ergéouin | ||||||||
| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Present subjunctive | Deut. | asa·gnoither | |||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Past subjunctive | Deut. | at·ngneitis (with infixed pronoun d-) | |||||||
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| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | ecnae | ||||||||
| Past participle | |||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| as·gnin | as·gnin pronounced with /-ɣ(ʲ)-/ |
as·ngnin |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “as·gnin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 546
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