"conn" meaning in Old Irish

See conn in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: Back-formation from the genitive singular and nominative plural cuinn and dative singular cunn, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *kʷennom (“head”). In Primitive Irish, the genitive singular *kʷennī (attested as -ᚉᚓᚅᚅᚔ (-cennī)) raised to *kʷinnī and then the resulting *i was rounded by the initial labiovelar to result in Old Irish cuinn. In case-forms without raising, the etymological e remained as such since it was not regularly rounded by labiovelars, hence an original nominative singular cenn. Since u in o-stem nouns usually alternates with o, not e (which usually alternates with i in o-stems), two separate nouns, cenn and conn arose. Etymology templates: {{inh|sga|cel-pro|*kʷennom|t=head}} Proto-Celtic *kʷennom (“head”) Head templates: {{head|sga|noun|||genitive|cuinn||||||||{{{3}}}||{{{pl2}}}||{{{pl3}}}|cat2=|g=m|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} conn m (genitive cuinn), {{sga-noun|m|cuinn}} conn m (genitive cuinn) Inflection templates: {{sga-decl-o-masc|cuinn|acc_pl=cunnu|dat_sg=cunn}}, {{sga-decl-noun|acc_du=conn+L|acc_du2=|acc_du3=|acc_pl=cunnu+H|acc_pl2=|acc_pl3=|acc_sg=conn+N|acc_sg2=|acc_sg3=|class=o-m|dat_du=connaib|dat_du2=|dat_du3=|dat_pl=connaib|dat_pl2=|dat_pl3=|dat_sg=cunn+L|dat_sg2=|dat_sg3=|gen_du=conn|gen_du2=|gen_du3=|gen_pl=conn+N|gen_pl2=|gen_pl3=|gen_pl4=|gen_sg=cuinn+L|gen_sg2=|gen_sg3=|n=|nom_du=conn+L|nom_du2=|nom_du3=|nom_pl=cuinn+L|nom_pl2=|nom_pl3=|nom_sg=conn|nom_sg2=|nom_sg3=|voc_du=conn+L|voc_du2=|voc_du3=|voc_pl=cunnu+H|voc_pl2=|voc_pl3=|voc_sg=cuinn|voc_sg2=|voc_sg3=}} Forms: cuinn [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], conn [nominative, singular], conn [dual, nominative], cuinn [nominative, plural], cuinn [singular, vocative], conn [dual, vocative], cunnu [plural, vocative], conn [accusative, singular], conn [accusative, dual], cunnu [accusative, plural], cuinn [genitive, singular], conn [dual, genitive], conn [genitive, plural], cunn [dative, singular], connaib [dative, dual], connaib [dative, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], conn [error-unrecognized-form], chonn [error-unrecognized-form], conn
  1. leader Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-conn-sga-noun-TVtmCUNi
  2. adult, grown-up Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-conn-sga-noun-DMIOKfKO
  3. sense, intelligence Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-conn-sga-noun-ADzFmh83
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      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mga",
            "2": "conn"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle Irish: conn",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle Irish: conn"
    },
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      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ga",
            "2": "conn"
          },
          "expansion": "Irish: conn",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Irish: conn"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gd",
            "2": "conn",
            "t": "sense, reason"
          },
          "expansion": "Scottish Gaelic: conn (“sense, reason”)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Scottish Gaelic: conn (“sense, reason”)"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "cel-pro",
        "3": "*kʷennom",
        "t": "head"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Celtic *kʷennom (“head”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from the genitive singular and nominative plural cuinn and dative singular cunn, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *kʷennom (“head”). In Primitive Irish, the genitive singular *kʷennī (attested as -ᚉᚓᚅᚅᚔ (-cennī)) raised to *kʷinnī and then the resulting *i was rounded by the initial labiovelar to result in Old Irish cuinn. In case-forms without raising, the etymological e remained as such since it was not regularly rounded by labiovelars, hence an original nominative singular cenn. Since u in o-stem nouns usually alternates with o, not e (which usually alternates with i in o-stems), two separate nouns, cenn and conn arose.",
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    {
      "form": "cuinn",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sga-decl-o-masc",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "conn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conn",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "cunnu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conn",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cunnu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cuinn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cunn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "connaib",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "connaib",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conn",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chonn",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conn",
      "source": "mutation"
    }
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "10": "",
        "11": "",
        "12": "",
        "13": "",
        "14": "{{{3}}}",
        "15": "",
        "16": "{{{pl2}}}",
        "17": "",
        "18": "{{{pl3}}}",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "genitive",
        "6": "cuinn",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
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        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "conn m (genitive cuinn)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "2": "cuinn"
      },
      "expansion": "conn m (genitive cuinn)",
      "name": "sga-noun"
    }
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cuinn",
        "acc_pl": "cunnu",
        "dat_sg": "cunn"
      },
      "name": "sga-decl-o-masc"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "acc_du": "conn+L",
        "acc_du2": "",
        "acc_du3": "",
        "acc_pl": "cunnu+H",
        "acc_pl2": "",
        "acc_pl3": "",
        "acc_sg": "conn+N",
        "acc_sg2": "",
        "acc_sg3": "",
        "class": "o-m",
        "dat_du": "connaib",
        "dat_du2": "",
        "dat_du3": "",
        "dat_pl": "connaib",
        "dat_pl2": "",
        "dat_pl3": "",
        "dat_sg": "cunn+L",
        "dat_sg2": "",
        "dat_sg3": "",
        "gen_du": "conn",
        "gen_du2": "",
        "gen_du3": "",
        "gen_pl": "conn+N",
        "gen_pl2": "",
        "gen_pl3": "",
        "gen_pl4": "",
        "gen_sg": "cuinn+L",
        "gen_sg2": "",
        "gen_sg3": "",
        "n": "",
        "nom_du": "conn+L",
        "nom_du2": "",
        "nom_du3": "",
        "nom_pl": "cuinn+L",
        "nom_pl2": "",
        "nom_pl3": "",
        "nom_sg": "conn",
        "nom_sg2": "",
        "nom_sg3": "",
        "voc_du": "conn+L",
        "voc_du2": "",
        "voc_du3": "",
        "voc_pl": "cunnu+H",
        "voc_pl2": "",
        "voc_pl3": "",
        "voc_sg": "cuinn",
        "voc_sg2": "",
        "voc_sg3": ""
      },
      "name": "sga-decl-noun"
    }
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  "lang_code": "sga",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "leader"
      ],
      "id": "en-conn-sga-noun-TVtmCUNi",
      "links": [
        [
          "leader",
          "leader"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "adult, grown-up"
      ],
      "id": "en-conn-sga-noun-DMIOKfKO",
      "links": [
        [
          "adult",
          "adult"
        ],
        [
          "grown-up",
          "grown-up"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "sense, intelligence"
      ],
      "id": "en-conn-sga-noun-ADzFmh83",
      "links": [
        [
          "sense",
          "sense"
        ],
        [
          "intelligence",
          "intelligence"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "conn"
}
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    "Old Irish lemmas",
    "Old Irish masculine nouns",
    "Old Irish masculine o-stem nouns",
    "Old Irish nouns",
    "Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic",
    "Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Primitive Irish terms with non-redundant manual transliterations"
  ],
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      "depth": 1,
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          "args": {
            "1": "mga",
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          },
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          "name": "desc"
        }
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      "text": "Middle Irish: conn"
    },
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          "args": {
            "1": "ga",
            "2": "conn"
          },
          "expansion": "Irish: conn",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Irish: conn"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gd",
            "2": "conn",
            "t": "sense, reason"
          },
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          "name": "desc"
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      ],
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    }
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        "3": "*kʷennom",
        "t": "head"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    }
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cuinn",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sga-decl-o-masc",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cuinn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cuinn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cunnu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cunnu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cuinn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cunn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "connaib",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "connaib",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conn",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chonn",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conn",
      "source": "mutation"
    }
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        "10": "",
        "11": "",
        "12": "",
        "13": "",
        "14": "{{{3}}}",
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        "17": "",
        "18": "{{{pl3}}}",
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        "3": "",
        "4": "",
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        "8": "",
        "9": "",
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      "name": "head"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "2": "cuinn"
      },
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      },
      "name": "sga-decl-o-masc"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "acc_du2": "",
        "acc_du3": "",
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        "acc_pl2": "",
        "acc_pl3": "",
        "acc_sg": "conn+N",
        "acc_sg2": "",
        "acc_sg3": "",
        "class": "o-m",
        "dat_du": "connaib",
        "dat_du2": "",
        "dat_du3": "",
        "dat_pl": "connaib",
        "dat_pl2": "",
        "dat_pl3": "",
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        "dat_sg2": "",
        "dat_sg3": "",
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        "gen_du2": "",
        "gen_du3": "",
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        "gen_pl2": "",
        "gen_pl3": "",
        "gen_pl4": "",
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        "gen_sg2": "",
        "gen_sg3": "",
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        "nom_du": "conn+L",
        "nom_du2": "",
        "nom_du3": "",
        "nom_pl": "cuinn+L",
        "nom_pl2": "",
        "nom_pl3": "",
        "nom_sg": "conn",
        "nom_sg2": "",
        "nom_sg3": "",
        "voc_du": "conn+L",
        "voc_du2": "",
        "voc_du3": "",
        "voc_pl": "cunnu+H",
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        "voc_pl3": "",
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    }
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  "lang_code": "sga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "leader"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "leader",
          "leader"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "adult, grown-up"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "adult",
          "adult"
        ],
        [
          "grown-up",
          "grown-up"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "sense, intelligence"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sense",
          "sense"
        ],
        [
          "intelligence",
          "intelligence"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "conn"
}

Download raw JSONL data for conn meaning in Old Irish (5.0kB)

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  "called_from": "inflection/865",
  "msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: conn/Old Irish 'radical' base_tags=set()",
  "path": [
    "conn"
  ],
  "section": "Old Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "conn",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'lenition'",
  "path": [
    "conn"
  ],
  "section": "Old Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "conn",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'nasalization'",
  "path": [
    "conn"
  ],
  "section": "Old Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "conn",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/1826",
  "msg": "inflection table: empty tags for conn",
  "path": [
    "conn"
  ],
  "section": "Old Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "conn",
  "trace": ""
}

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