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Old Irish
Etymology
Perhaps from camm (“false”) + oíb (“appearance”)[1]
Pronunciation
Thurneysen suggests that the word is “probably to be read with ‑aí‑”, i.e. pronounced , based on his proposed etymology. However, it is apparently never written with an acute accent, either in Old Irish or in Middle Irish texts, rendering the pronunciation more likely.
Adverb
cammaiph
- however
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Mutation
Mutation of cammaiph
| radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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| cammaiph
|
chammaiph
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cammaiph
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
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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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