dind

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dʲin͈d]

Etymology 1

Univerbation of di +‎ in

Article

dind

1. of/from the sg

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *dindu, cognate to Proto-Germanic *tindaz (“peak, tip”).

Noun

dind n

1. height, hill
   • c. 808, Félire Oengusso, May 17; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:

     Scorsit cen chuit fainne   for dind flatha finde.

     They unyoked, without a wit of weakness,   on a height of the blessed kingdom.

2. a fortified settlement, stronghold
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 63^a13

     a ṅdind, Suthul á nom[en]

     The town, Suthul [was] its name.

Inflection

Neuter u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	dindN	dindL	dindL, dinda
Vocative	dindN	dindL	dind
Accusative	dindN	dindL	dind
Genitive	dindoH, dindaH	dindoN, dindaN	dindN
Dative	dindL	dindaib	dindaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of dind

radical	lenition	nasalization
dind	dind pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndind

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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