intí

See also: inti, Inti, and -inti

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of int (definite article) +‎ í (deictic particle)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [in͈ʲˈtʲiː]

Pronoun

intí

1. (s)he who, that which; the one who, the one which; whoever, what(ever)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:intí.

Declension

Case	Singular			Plural
	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	intí, inthí	indí, indhí	aní	indí, indhí	(in)nahí
Accusative	inní			(in)nahí
Genitive	indí, indhí	(in)nahí	indí, indhí	(in)naní
Dative	dondí, dondhí cossindí, cossindhí etc.			donaibí, donaibhí cosnaibí, cosnaibhí etc.
	Note: The dative is used only after a preposition, which forms a contraction with the definite article, e.g. dondí (“to the one who/which”), cossindí (“with the one who/which”), etc.

Accusative plural after for (“on”): forsnahí

Derived terms

• intísiu

Descendants

• Irish: an té
• Irish: ní (“thing”)

Determiner

intí

1. used in apposition with proper nouns or common nouns denoting a specific individual to indicate that the individual has already been named previously: the aforementioned but more idiomatically translated into English with an emphatic reflexive such as himself
   • 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. 46^c7

     dona⟨ib⟩hí dïand·rérchoíl intí Día

     to those for whom God himself has determined it

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “4 í, hí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 474, page 299