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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *neman, degeminated from Proto-Indo-European *nem-mn̥, from *nem- (“to distribute, give”) + *-mn̥ (verbal noun suffix).[1] For the semantic relationship, compare German Gift (“poison, toxin”).[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
neim n or f (genitive neime, nominative plural neimi) (originally neuter)[3]
- poison
- venom
Inflection
This term declines as a neuter n-stem in the singular and an i-stem in the plural.
| Neuter n-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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neimN
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neimN
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neimiH
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| Vocative
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neimN
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neimN
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neimiH
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| Accusative
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neimN
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neimN
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neimiH
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| Genitive
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neime
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neimeN
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neimeN
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| Dative
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neimimL
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neimib
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neimib
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Descendants
References
- ^ Byrd, Andrew Miles (2006) “Return to Dative Anmaimm”, in Ériu, volume 56, page 152
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*nemo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 288
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “neim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language