gnúis

From Old Irish gnúis.

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ɡn̪ˠuːʃ/
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /ɡnˠuːʃ/, /ɡn̪ˠuːʃ/, /ɡɾˠuːʃ/
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɡɾˠuːʃ/

gnúis f (genitive singular gnúise, nominative plural gnúiseanna or núise)

1. face (front part of head), visage, countenance

   Synonyms: aghaidh, éadan

2. face (facial expression)

   Synonym: dreach

3. (specifically) a wry face or expression
4. mien

   gnúis mhaorga ― a noble or lofty mien

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gnúis”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “gnúis”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 374
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gnúis”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 44

From Proto-Celtic *gnūstis, whence also Middle Welsh gnis (“jaw, chin, face”), further origins unclear. Maybe connected to giun (“mouth”).^[1] MacBain connects it with Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ɡnuːsʲ/

gnúis f (genitive gnúsa)

1. face (front part of head)
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 15^a20

     Ní foí⟨l⟩sitis déicsin a gnúsa íar mbid dó oc accaldim Dé, oc tindnacul recto dó.

     They would not have endured the beholding of his face after he had been conversing with God, at the bestowing of the law to him.

• Irish: gnúis
• Scottish Gaelic: gnùis
• Manx: grooish

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