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duine
duine
Irish
Noun
duine m (genitive singular duine, nominative plural daoine)
- person, human being
- one (in reference to human beings)
- Tá ceithre pháiste aige; tá duine acu tinn.
- He has four children; one of them is sick.
- Tá ceithre pháiste aige; tá duine acu tinn.
Declension
Fourth declension
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Related terms
- daonna (“human; humane, kindly”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
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| duine | dhuine | nduine |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- "duine" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- “duine” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *gdonyos (“human, person”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰm̥mō (“earthling, human”), a derivation of *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”) (whence also dú (“place, spot”)).
Akin to Breton den (“man”) and Welsh dyn (“man”). For the parallel semantic development of the noun for "man, human" from the cognate nominal stem for "earth", compare Latin homō (“man, person”), Old Lithuanian žmuõ (“man”) and Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌼𐌰 (guma).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdunʲe/
Noun
duine m (genitive duini, nominative plural doíni)
Declension
| Masculine io-stem, masculine i-stem | |||
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| Nominative | duine | — | doíniH |
| Vocative | duiniL | — | doíniH |
| Accusative | duineN | — | doíniH |
| Genitive | duiniL | — | doíneN |
| Dative | duiniuL | — | doínib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
Mutation
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| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| duine | duine pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ |
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- “duine” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish duine, from Proto-Celtic *gdonyos (“human, person”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰm̥mō (“earthling, human”), a derivation of *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t̪ɯɲə/
Noun
duine m (genitive singular duine, plural daoine)
- man
- person, body, individual
- 1911 (Birlinn Limited), Edward Dwelly: The Illustrated Gaelic-English Dictionary:
- Duine gun mhath gun chron, is **** a chron na a mhath. ― A man that's neither good nor ill is more ill than good.
- 1911 (Birlinn Limited), Edward Dwelly: The Illustrated Gaelic-English Dictionary:
- husband
- one
- Is fheudar dha duine a-riamh a dh'aithneachadh na thathar a' dèanamh le fhèin an duine. ― One must always know what one is doing with oneself.
- Chan eil fios aig duine a riamh. ― One never knows.
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References
- Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
- “duine” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.