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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *awontīr (compare Welsh ewythr, Breton eontr, Cornish ewnter), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂ō (“(maternal) grandfather/uncle”) (compare Middle Irish ó, Latin avus (“grandfather”), dialectal German Awwe (“grandfather”), Ohm (“uncle”)).
Noun
amnair m
- maternal uncle
- 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. 61a21
- amnair bráthair máthar glosses auunculus
Inflection
Only the lemma form is attested, but it is likely to have followed the declension pattern of athair and bráthair.
Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of amnair
| radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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amnair
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
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unchanged
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n-amnair
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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