menic

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See also: měníc

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *menekkis. Cognate with Welsh mynych.

Pronunciation

Adjective

menic (comparative meinciu)

  1. frequent, often
    • 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. 67a4
      .i. mane ⁊ delucolo, airis ainm n-aimsire hi sunt a mane, ciasu menciu fu dobrethir.
      i.e. mane and diluculo, for mane is a noun of time here, although it is more frequent as an adverb.
    • c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 18, pages 115-179:
      Ní fil ní do·gné dune dar cend indtí ad·bail nad cobair dó, etir figill & abstanit & gabail necnairci & almsanæ & bendachtæ menci.
      There is nothing that a man does on behalf of one that dies that does not help him, whether vigil or abstinence, or reciting intercessory prayers or almsgiving, or frequent benediction.

Inflection

i-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative menic menic menic
Vocative menic
Accusative menic menic
Genitive menic mence menic
Dative menic menic menic
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative menci menci
Vocative menci
Accusative menci
Genitive menic*
mence
Dative mencib
Notes *not when substantivized

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: menic, meinic

Mutation

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

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*menekki-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 265

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