Núadu
Cite this: eDIL s.v. Núadu or dil.ie/33331Last Revised:
2013
Forms:
Nodonti, Nodenti, Nuadu, Nuado, Nuada, Nuadha, Nuadat, Nuadhat, Nodtat, Núadhat, Nuadhait, Nuadhat, Nuadhat, Nuadhaid, Nodan, Núadha, Núadhait
npr.
m. a name borne by more than one mythical king
of Ireland and later by some historic persons. The orig.
vowel is ō, cf. the dat. forms Nodonti, Nodenti (
Corp. Inscr. Lat. vii 138
,
140
).
Declined
(a) as d-stem: n
s.
Nuadu,
LL 127a48
,
128a27
.
Nuado,
25b13
. Possibly earlier
Nuada,
AU 780.
Nuadha,
AU 810
,
811
;
O'Mulc. 665
(one of the three `fáithi fis' of the heathen
Irish), and later texts generally. g
s.
Nuadat,
LL 128a26
.
Nuadhat,
AU 774.
Nodtat,
Mart. Tall. Feb. 19.
a
d
s.
la
Nuadait,
LL 128a25
. In later Mid. and Mod.Ir. the g
s.
Núadhat (-ad) continues in use (
Nuaghad,
BB 32b38
); also
d
s.
Nuadhait,
Keat. i 218.36
(Nuadha v.l.), but:
lé Nuadha,
ii 2175
. The n
s. Nuadhat (-ad) is occas. found,
BB 46b37
(g
s.
Nuadhat,
ib. 36
); g
s.
Nuadhaid (: cuid),
Content. vi 154.
(b) traces of a parallel n-declension occur in early texts: g
s.
in oratorio Nodan
,
AU 808
, cf.
ath Dísirt Nuadhat,
ii 448.5
(prob. same place, see Hog. Onom. s.v. Disert Nodan). d
s.
ut
impletum est i Nodáin [leg. Nódain] locha hUama [sic leg.],
Trip. 144.15
, cf.
Nuadha locha hUamae
episcopus et ancorita
abbas Airrd Machae,
AU 811.
Núadha,
IGT Dec. § 8.9
(declined like elta, n-stem, but d
s.
do Núadhait
).