nemed

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *nemetom.

Pronunciation

Noun

nemed m (genitive nemid, nominative plural nemid)

  1. sanctuary
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 13b1
      nemed glosses sacellum
  2. a person with privilege

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative nemed nemedL nemidL
Vocative nemid nemedL nemthiuH
Accusative nemedN nemedL nemthiuH
Genitive nemidL nemed nemedN
Dative nemiudL nemthib nemthib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Irish: neimheadh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
nemed
also nnemed after a proclitic 		nemed
pronounced with /n(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) “*nemeto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 288

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