duine

duine

1. plural of duin

From Old Irish duine,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *gdonyos (“human, person”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰm̥mō (“earthling, human”), a derivation of *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”).

The plural daoine is suppletive, coming from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“to die”).

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

duine m (genitive singular duine, nominative plural daoine)

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

   Tá ceathrar páistí aige; tá duine 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”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 378; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “duine”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

duine

1. alternative form of dwynen

From Old Irish duine, from Proto-Celtic *gdonyos (“human, person”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪unʲə/

duine m (genitive duini, nominative plural doíni)

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”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Celtic *gdonyos (“human, person”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰm̥mō (“earthling, human”), a derivation of *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”) (whence also dú (“place, spot”)).

Akin to Breton den (“man”) and Welsh dyn (“man”). For the parallel semantic development of the noun for "man, human" from the cognate nominal stem for "earth", compare Latin homō (“man, person”), Old Lithuanian žmuõ (“man”) and Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌼𐌰 (guma).

The plural doíni is suppletive, coming from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“to die”) generally reconstructed as Proto-Celtic *dowenis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪u.nʲe/

duine m (genitive duini, nominative plural doíni)

1. person, human being

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:duine.

• 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”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Old Irish duine, from Proto-Celtic *gdonyos (“human, person”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰm̥mō (“earthling, human”), a derivation of *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪̊ɯ̃ɲə/^[1][2][3], (preceding a vowel) /d̪̊ɯɲ/

• (Barra) IPA^(key): /ˈd̪̊ɯɲʌ/^[6]
• (South Argyll) IPA^(key): /ˈd̪̊uɲə/, [ˈd̪̊uˀɲə]^[7]

duine m (genitive singular duine, plural daoine)

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. ― A man that's neither good nor ill is more ill than good.

3. husband, married man

   an duine agam ― my husband

4. one

   Is fheudar dha duine 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 aig duine a riamh. ― One never knows.

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