Old Irish

Noun

aithgne n ‎(genitive aichinte or aithennta)

1. verbal noun of ad·gnin
2. act of knowing, recognising, perceiving; knowledge, recognition, perception
   • c. 875, 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. 42^b13

     do aithgniu ┐ etarcnu dǽ treu‎

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   • 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. 19^d9

     ar is hé as eola fri aidgne ind athar‎

     glosses missit Deus Spiritum Filii sui in corda uestra

   1. (transferred meaning) characteristic by which something can be recognised
3. coming to recognise, getting to know
4. recognition (as in recognition of a poet by his patron), generosity

Inflection

References

• “2 aithne ("knowing")” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.