Fromaith- +‎·gnin, fromProto-Celtic*gninuti, fromProto-Indo-European*ǵneh₃-(“to know”). Cognate withWelshadwaen andCornishaswon (both from*ati-uɸo-gni-).

• IPA^(key): /aðˈɡʲnʲin/

ad·gnin (verbal nounaithgne)

1. toknow, torecognize

   Synonyms:as·gnin,in·gnin

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published inThesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 29^b10

     .i. air ni conbiasom manibé aní huanaithgnintar ⁊ huanainmnigther

     i.e. for it will not exist unless there exist that from which it is recognised and named

   • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:adgnin.
2. toperceive, to beaware of, tounderstand
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published inThesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb.1^b14:

     .i.ætgnithi .i. isfollus doib asnoipred fir oirdnithi

     i.e. understood, i.e. it is manifest to them that it is the working of a supreme being

3. to know sexually
   • Lebor na hUidre, line 10323

     nír forfáemusa mnaíatgnead fer

In the sense ‘know, recognize’ the preterite is often used with a present meaning; see for example the two quotes from the Würzburg glosses on thecitations page.

• Irish:aithin
• Scottish Gaelic:aithnich

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ad·gnin”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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