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gním

gním

Old Irish

Noun

gním m ‎(genitive gnímo, nominative plural gnímae or gnímai)

verbal noun of gníid
action, deed
- 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. 12^c9
  Ní dénim gnímu macthi.
  I do not do childish deeds.
work
doing, making

Declension

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	gním	gním^L	gnímae
Vocative	gním	gním^L	gnímu
Accusative	gním^N	gním^L	gnímu
Genitive	gnímo	gnímo^L	gnímae^N
Dative	gním^L	gnímaib	gnímaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Synonyms

(action, deed): bann, bert, glond, icht
(work): fognam, lubair, monar, opar, othar, saethar
(doing, making): dénmas, dénum

Descendants

Irish: gníomh
Scottish Gaelic: gnìomh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
gním	gním pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/	ngním
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.