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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *menmens, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, remember”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
menmae m (genitive menman, nominative plural menmain)
- the mind
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13a12
Má beid ní di rúnaib do·théi ar menmuin ind ḟir bíis inna ṡuidiu et ad·reig.- If there are any of the mysteries that may come upon the mind of the man who is sitting, and he rises.
- thinking, understanding
- thought, heed, attention
- spirit, courage, self-confidence
- desire, inclination
Inflection
Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of menmae
radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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menmae also mmenmae after a proclitic ending in a vowel
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menmae pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/
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unchanged
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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.
References
- ^ Stüber, Karin (1998) The Historical Morphology of n-Stems in Celtic (Maynooth studies in Celtic linguistics; III), Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, →ISBN, pages 172-173
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