duine

1. plural ofduin

FromOld Irishduine,^[1] fromProto-Celtic*gdonyos(“human, person”), fromProto-Indo-European*dʰǵʰm̥mō(“earthling, human”), a derivation of*dʰéǵʰōm(“earth”).

The pluraldaoine is suppletive, coming from a derivative ofProto-Indo-European*dʰew-(“to die”).

• (Munster, Connacht)IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ˠinʲə/^[2][3]
• (Ulster)IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ˠinʲə/^[4],/ˈd̪ˠin̠ʲə/^[5]

duine m (genitive singularduine,nominative pluraldaoine)

1. person,human being
2. one(in reference to human beings)

   Tá ceathrar páistí aige; táduine acu tinn.

   He has four children; one of them is sick.

• Alternative (nonstandard) plural form:daoiní

• neach

• daonna(“human; humane, kindly”,adjective)
• duineatacht(“humaneness, kindliness”)
• duiniúlacht(“humanity, kindliness”)

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “duine”, inFoclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society,page378; reprinted with additions1996,→ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “duine”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN

duine

1. alternative form ofdwynen

FromOld Irishduine, fromProto-Celtic*gdonyos(“human, person”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪unʲə/

duine m (genitiveduini,nominative pluraldoíni)

1. person

• dóen

• Irish:duine
• Manx:dooinney
• Scottish Gaelic:duine

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

FromProto-Celtic*gdonyos(“human, person”), fromProto-Indo-European*dʰǵʰm̥mō(“earthling, human”), a derivation of*dʰéǵʰōm(“earth”) (whence alsodú(“place, spot”)).

Akin toBretonden(“man”) andWelshdyn(“man”). For the parallel semantic development of the noun for "man, human" from the cognate nominal stem for "earth", compareLatinhomō(“man, person”),Old Lithuanianžmuõ(“man”) andGothic𐌲𐌿𐌼𐌰(guma).

The pluraldoíni is suppletive, coming from a derivative ofProto-Indo-European*dʰew-(“to die”) generally reconstructed asProto-Celtic*dowenis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪u.nʲe/

duine m (genitiveduini,nominative pluraldoíni)

1. person.human being
   • 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.17^d23

     arná{m}·tomnad námminduinesed deus

     that he should not suppose that I am a human but a god

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published inThesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 134^d3

     Ɔ·riris-siu .i. ar·troídfe{a}-siu inna drochdaíni, a Dǽ, dia n‑anduch, air is fechtnach a n‑andach mani erthroítar húa Día.

     You will bind, i.e. you will restrain the evilpeople, O God, from their iniquity, for their iniquity is prosperous if they are not restrained by God.

• Middle Irish:duine
  • Irish:duine
  • Manx:dooinney
  • Scottish Gaelic:duine

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

FromOld Irishduine, fromProto-Celtic*gdonyos(“human, person”), fromProto-Indo-European*dʰǵʰm̥mō(“earthling, human”), a derivation of*dʰéǵʰōm(“earth”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪̊ɯɲə/
• (Lewis, Wester Ross)IPA^(key): /ˈd̪̊ɯ̃ɲə/^[1]
  • (Ness)IPA^(key): [ˈd̪̊ĩɲə]^[2]
  • (Bernera)IPA^(key): [ˈd̪̊ɯ̃ɲə]^[3]
  • (Lochs)IPA^(key): [ˈd̪̊ɨ̃ɲə]^[4]
• (Barra)IPA^(key): [ˈd̪̊ɯɲʌ]^[5],(preceding a vowel)[d̪̊ɯɲ]
• (Eastern Highlands)IPA^(key): /d̪̊ɯɲ/

duine m (genitive singularduine,pluraldaoine)

1. man(gender-specific)
2. person,body,individual(gender-neutral)
   • 1911 (Birlinn Limited), Edward Dwelly:The Illustrated Gaelic-English Dictionary:

     Duine gun mhath gun chron, is motha a chron na a mhath. ―Aman that's neither good nor ill is more ill than good.

3. husband,married man

   anduine agam ―myhusband

4. one

   Is fheudar dhaduine 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 aigduine a riamh. ―One never knows.

• Edward Dwelly (1911), “duine”, inFaclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[3], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited,→ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “duine”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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