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Middle Irish
Etymology
From Primitive Irish ᚉᚉᚔᚉᚐᚋᚔᚅᚔ (ccicamini), equivalent to cích + min literally 'having small breasts'.[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Cíchmuine m
- a male given name
Mutation
Mutation of Cíchmuine
| radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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| Cíchmuine |
Chíchmuine |
Cíchmuine
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Ziegler, Sabine (1994) Alfred Bammesberger and Günter Neumann, editors, Die Sprache der altirischen Ogam-Inschriften [The language of the Old Irish Ogham inscriptions] (Historische Sprachforschung; Ergänzungsheft 36) (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 149
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