maidm

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

maidm n (genitive madmae)

  1. verbal noun of maidid: bursting, breaking
    • Sechtae, published in Ancient Laws of Ireland: Uraicecht Becc and Certain Other Selected Brehon Law Tracts (1901, Dublin: Stationery Office), edited and with translations by W. Neilson Hancock, Thaddeus O'Mahony, Alexander George Richey, and Robert Atkinson, vol. 5, pp. 117-373, page 310, line 4
      maidm a scéith for a du(i)rn(d)
      the bursting of a shield upon his fist
    • c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe, TBC-I 555
      "Ro·fedammar ém," ol Conchobar. Do·be(i)r gá[e] ⁊ scíath dó. Bertaigis forra conná térna ní dona .v. gaiscedaib déc no·bitis d'imorcraid hi teaglach Concho[bair] fri maidm n-airm nó fri gabáil ngaiscid do neoch.
      "We know him, indeed," said Conchobar. He gave a spear and a shield. Cú Chulainn brandished them in so that there was nothing left of 15 weapons that had been spares in Conchobar's household for the breaking of weapons or for someone to take up arms.
  2. rout, defeat, victory (with ré indicating the victor and for indicating the loser)
    • c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe, TBC-YBL 3617
      Do·lotar […] ó Medb […] do ebert madma[e] for hUlltu […]
      came from Medb to tell of the defeat of the Ulstermen...
    • 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. 33b11
      .i. maidm riam
      a victory for them
    • 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. 84c6
      .i. madmae remib
      of a victory for them
    • 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. 84c9
      iar mai[d]m chatha forru
      after a victory over them in battle

Inflection

Neuter n-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative maidmN maidmN madmanL
Vocative maidmN maidmN madmanL
Accusative maidmN maidmN madmanL
Genitive madmae madmanN madmanN
Dative madmaimL madmanaib madmanaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: maidm

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
maidm
also mmaidm after a proclitic
ending in a vowel 		maidm
pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/ 		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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