guin

See also: Guin and -guin

Old Irish

From Proto-Celtic *gʷoni, whence also Middle Welsh gwan (“blow, stroke”), Welsh gwân.

guin n (genitive gona)

verbal noun of gonaid: wounding
- 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. 133^a4
  Is ansu cech todǽrnam a nguin cosind loscud .i. a nguin cosind saigit áin.
  Wounding with the burning (i.e. wounding with the fiery arrow) is more grievous than any torture.

Neuter i-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	guin^N	guin^N	guine^L
Vocative	guin^N	guin^N	guine^L
Accusative	guin^N	guin^N	guine^L
Genitive	gono^H, gona^H	gono^H, gona^H	guine^N
Dative	guin^L	guinib	guinib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation of *guin*
radical	lenition	nasalization
guin	guin pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/	nguin

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