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Old Irish
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Etymology
From Primitive Irish ᚐᚅᚋ (anm), from Proto-Celtic *anman, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ainmm n (genitive anmae, nominative plural anman)
- name
- 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. 24a38
Ní epur a n-anman sund.- I do not mention their names here.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 118b6
Air mad panem nammá du·berad-som ⁊ ní taibred meum, ro·bad dund ṡásad dïant ainm panis tantum no·regad; húare immurgu du·n-uic meum, is ar chech ṡásad da·uic-som amal sodin.- For if it were panem only that he put and he did not put meum, it would be only to the food to which is the name panis that it would apply; however, because he has put meum, it is for every food then that he has put that.
- c. 850, Carlsruhe Glosses on St Augustine’s Soliloquia, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. 2, pp. 1–9, Acr. 14a2
Bés as·bera-su as n‑ai⟨n⟩m dosom animus ci at·bela.- Maybe you would say that animus is its name though it may die.
- reputation, repute, renown
- (grammar) noun
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 211b6
ind anme fil ina chomṡuidigud- of the noun that is a compound
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 27a9
nibí dechor etir diall n-anmann ⁊ pronominum- there is no difference between the declension of nouns and pronouns
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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