n [f.] acc. to Thurneysen,
Heldensage 361
, a compd.
of noí meaning nine days (for second component cf. denus
`space of a day'). But see
Celtic Language, Celtic Culture 137-50
, also
Éigse xiii 165-76
. n
s.
noinden
,
LL 125b42
,
126a22
.
noenden,
LU 4957
=
noendin,
TBC-I¹ 472
Y.
noínnin,
LU 5899
(H) =
TBC-I¹ 1431.
g
s.
noinden
,
TBC-LL¹ 225.
noenden,
4544
. a
s.
ina
nóendin
,
LU 5350.
d
s.
noendin,
LU 4957
,
4962
(= naindin,
TBC-I¹ 476
Y).
noennin,
5929
.
(a) Name given to the Ulster
couvade or period during which the Ulstermen were debilitated and unable to fight. There are two independent
accounts of the cause, one published in
ZCP viii 120
(<
Harl. 5280 f. 44b
); the other exists in varying versions, two of
which (from
Harl. 5280 f. 42b
and
LL 125b42
-
126a
resp.) are
published by Windisch, Sitzungsb. Pr. Akad. 1884 p. 336 fg.
, a third of later date from
H 3.18 p. 46b
by Thurneysen,
ZCP xii 251
; in Harl. and LL
the tale is entitled
Noinden Ulad. See Thurneysen
Heldensage 359 fg.
Acc. to LL:
cóic laa ┐ cethri aidche no coic
aidche ┐ cethri laa. issed sin ro boí noinden Ulad. Nert mna
siúil ba hed no bíd la cech fer di Ultaib fri saegul nonbair isin
noe[n]den. Treide for nā bíd noenden di Ultaib .i. maicc ┐
mnaa Ulad ┐ Cu Chulaind
,
126a20
-
4
; from which it appears
that n.¤
= nine periods of twelve hours; see also
Dinds. 94
(
RC xvi 45
) quoted under 2 nómad.
noinden Ulad quasi
novim dies, ar is ī rē laithe no bitis isin cess,
O'Mulc. 835.
bátár Ulaid inna noendin. Ní boí noenden linni iarom, for
Fergus, for mnáib ┐ maccaib . . . nach for Coin Culaind ┐ fora
athair,
LU 4957.
dochótár Ulaid ina nóendin,
5350
=
noindnin,
TBC-I¹ 874.
ma dodeochaid assa noennin,
TBC-I¹
1461.
In TBC the phrase cess noínden
is used:
atá Conchobar
'na chess noinden i nEmain,
225
(=
ina chess,
TBC-I¹ 45
), cf.
4544
. The title: in ceas naigen (= cess noíden) is given to
the story in
YBL 211a39
, likewise in H. 3.18 (in ces naidhen,
see
ZCP xii 252
), a name used also by
Keat. ii 2424
(see noídiu).
(b) (? Lat. nundinae 'market-day')
assembly (?):
noenden .i. tinol, ut est ardnoendin sluaigh .i. tinol sluaigh mhoir,
O'Dav. § 1296
.
(c) of doubtful signification, in follg. exx. apparently
warlike gathering, mêlée, fray
or something similar.
ni thecat
sain i nnoenden acht ra hirdalta gona duine dogrés,
TBC-LL¹
4329
(`zu einer Waffentat', Wind.) = i ccath nā i comlonn,
St. =
a noindin,
TBC-I¹ 2806.
fer nā dechaid asa naindin
riam erat ro bai gai ina laim gon [= cen] cenn Connachtaig
lais,
ZCP i 103.1
(of Conall Cernach) =
assa noendin,
Ériu iv
28 § 19
(
LL 107a27
).
ni dechaid asa noendin riam [cen] guin
Ultaig,
Death-tales of the Ulster heroes 36 § 1
(of Cét mac Mágach); in the three
preceding exx. Thurneysen,
Heldensage 361 n. 2
, takes the
phrase as = asa noídin `from his boyhood'.
ni bo choir mo
fled-sa do thomailt cen noindin Uladh impe,
IT ii1 174.24
(`Kriegszug oder Heldentat der Ulter', Thurneysen,
Heldensage
468 n. 3
). ?
sruth soimen i mbiadh noinden noindenach,
Anecd. ii 65.12
. naindean no naoindean .i.
gaisgeadh, O'Cl.
nainden .i. gaisced,
H 3.18 p. 416
(
O'Curry
965
). nainnean .i. gaisced `valour',
P. O'C.