nuae

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• nue, naue
• nóe

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *nowiyos (compare Welsh newydd, Breton nevez), from Proto-Indo-European *néwos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈn̪u.e/

Adjective

nuae

1. new
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 18^b4

     .i. roth cruind forsa·ndenat na cerda in lestrai nui

     i.e. a round wheel on which the potters make the new vessels

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 110^d12

     Ní nuae dun-ni, a Daé, ind esamnae-so dit ditin-siu.

     This confidence concerning Your sg protection is not new to us, O God.

   • 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. 217^a

     Memmbrum naue, droch dub! Ó, ní epur na haill.

     New parchment, bad ink! Oh, I say nothing more.

Inflection

io/iā-stem

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	nuae	nuae	nuae
vocative	nuai
accusative	nuae	nuai
genitive	nuai	nuae	nuai
dative	nuu	nuai	nuu
plural	masculine	feminine/neuter
nominative	nuai	nuai
vocative	nuai nuu*
accusative	nuai nuu*
genitive	nuae
dative	nuaib

* when substantivized

Derived terms

• núíadnisse

Descendants

• Middle Irish: núa
  • Irish: nua
  • Manx: noa
  • Scottish Gaelic: nuadh

Mutation

Mutation of nuae

radical	lenition	nasalization
nuae also nnuae in h-prothesis environments	nuae pronounced with /n-/	nuae also nnuae

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

References

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