aithne

See also: Aithne

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish aithgne (“knowing, recognition”).[3]

Noun

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

  1. acquaintance, acquaintanceship (with ar plus the person or thing one is acquainted with)
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 24:
      tā æńə agm̥ əŕ.
      [Tá aithne agam air.]
      I know him; I am acquainted with him.
  2. recognition; act of recognizing
  3. knowledge
  4. (characteristic or distinguishing) appearance
  5. Alternative form of aithint: verbal noun of aithin
Declension
Declension of aithne

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Vocative a Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Genitive Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Dative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Genitive na haithne
Dative leis an Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

don Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms
  • anaithne f (“obscurity, lack of recognition”)
  • athaithne f (“renewal of acquaintance”)
  • dea-aithne f (“good acquaintanceship”)
  • féinaithne f (“self-knowledge”)

Etymology 2

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).[4]

Noun

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

  1. commandment, precept
Declension
Declension of aithne

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) aitheanta
Vocative a Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) a aitheanta
Genitive Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) aitheanta
Dative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) aitheanta

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) na haitheanta
Genitive na haithne na n-aitheanta
Dative leis an Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

don Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

 leis na haitheanta

Mutation

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References
  1. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 59
  2. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 6
  3. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 aithne ("knowing")”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 aithne ("entrusting")”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

Old Irish
FWOTD – 25 July 2015

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈaθʲnʲe]

Noun

aithne n

  1. verbal noun of ad·noí
  2. an act of entrusting, handing over; the thing entrusted
    • 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. 66a26
      a n-aithne glosses depositum
  3. an act of commanding; a command, order
  4. (biblical) a commandment, a Commandment

Inflection

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) unchanged n-aithne
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish aithgne (“knowing, recognition”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈaɲə/

Noun

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

  1. knowledge, discernment, acquaintance

Derived terms

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
aithnen-aithneh-aithnet-aithne
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
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