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Ojibwe
Etymology
From Proto-Algonquian *aθemwa.
Noun
anim (plural animoog, pejorative animosh, pejorative plural animoshag, final -asim, final plural -asimoog)
- dog
Old Irish
Etymology 1
From Proto-Celtic *anamī.
Pronunciation
Noun
anim f (genitive ainme, nominative plural anmi)
- blemish
- c. 750-800 Tairired na nDessi from Rawlinson B 502, published in "The Expulsion of the Dessi", Y Cymmrodor (1901, Society of Cymmrodorion), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, vol. 14, pp. 104-135, paragraph 3
Is desin ro·gníd Ocheill for Temraig sechtair .i. clasa ráth la Cormac, conid inte no·foihed-som do grés, ar ni ba hada rí co n-anim do feis i Temraig.- Hence Achaill was built by the side of Tara, that is to say a ringfort was dug by Cormac in which he would always sleep, as it was not lawful for a king with a blemish to sleep in Tara.
Inflection
The attested forms show a mixture of ī- and ā-stem inflection.
| Feminine ī-stem
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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| Nominative
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animL
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animL
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ainmiH
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| Vocative
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animL
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animL
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ainmiH
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| Accusative
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animN
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animL
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ainmiH
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| Genitive
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ainmeH
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ainmeL
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ainmeN
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| Dative
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animL
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ainmib
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ainmib
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
anim f (genitive anmae, nominative plural anmain)
- Alternative spelling of ainimm
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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anim
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
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unchanged
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n-anim
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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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References
Romanian
Pronunciation
Verb
anim
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of anima
Tagalog
Tagalog numbers (edit)
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60
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6
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7 →
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Cardinal: anim
Spanish cardinal: seis
Ordinal: ikaanim, pang-anim
Ordinal abbreviation: ika-6, pang-6
Adverbial: makaanim
Multiplier: anim na ibayo
Distributive: tig-anim, animan, anim-anim
Restrictive: aanim
Fractional: kanim, sangkanim, saikanim, kaanim, sangkaanim, ikaanim, saikaanim
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Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *aʔənəm, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *a-ənəm, from Proto-Austronesian *a-ənəm. Compare Kapampangan anam, Bikol Central anom, Cebuano unom, Maranao nem, and Malay enam.
Pronunciation
Numeral
anim (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜈᜒᜋ᜔)
- six
- Synonym: seis
Usage notes
- To describe the quantity of something, the number is placed before the noun and affixed with -ng enclitic suffix when the word ends with a vowel, and a separate preposition, na, for a consonant.
Isang saging, dalawang pinya- One banana, two pineapples
Apat na mansanas, anim na mangga- Four apples, six mangos
Derived terms
Further reading
- “anim”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*enem”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI