ainmne

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Irish

Noun

ainmne

  1. plural of ainm

Mutation

Mutated forms of ainmne
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ainmne n-ainmne hainmne not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *anmen-, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stay, remain”). Cognate with Welsh amynedd.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

ainmne (gender unknown, genitive ainmnet, no plural)

  1. patience
    • 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. 55a1
      Ná déne ainmnit.
      Do not show patience.
      (literally, “Do not do patience.”)

Inflection

Masculine nt-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ainmne — —
Vocative ainmne — —
Accusative ainmnitN — —
Genitive ainmnet — —
Dative ainmnitL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
  • An accusative plural ainmnetea is attested but is considered by Thurneysen to be an artificial formation.[2]

Mutation

Mutation of ainmne
radical lenition nasalization
ainmne
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) 		unchanged n-ainmne

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*an-men-V-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 38
  2. ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 208; reprinted 2017

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