honni

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honni (feminine honnie, masculine plural honnis, feminine plural honnies)

1. past participle of honnir

• “honni”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Middle Welsh honni, from Proto-Celtic *swonnīti, an o-grade iterative formation to *swannati formed after it spawned a neo-root *swenn-. Proto-Celtic *swannati is itself from Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂- (“to sound”).^[1]

Brittonic *hw- (usually from Proto-Celtic *sw-) regularly delabializes to h- before o instead of becoming chw-.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔnɪ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔni/
• Rhymes: -ɔnɪ

honni (first-person singular present honnaf, not mutable)

1. (transitive) to allege, to claim, to assert

   Synonyms: haeru, taeru

• honedig (“alleged”)
• honiad (“allegation, claim”)
• ymhonni (“to arrogate”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “honni”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies