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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *rāmyos (“oar”), (compare Welsh rhaw, Cornish rêv, Middle Breton reuf (“shovel”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”).
Pronunciation
Noun
rámae m (genitive rámai)
- oar
- 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. 36a7
cét rámae fuiri- a hundred oars in it
- spade
- c. 700, Críth Gablach, published in Críth Gablach (1941, Dublin: Stationery Office), edited by Daniel Anthony Binchy, §40, line 532
lorg rám(m)ai- shaft of a spade
Inflection
| Masculine io-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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rámae
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rámaeL
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rámaiL
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| Vocative
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rámai
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rámaeL
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rámu
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| Accusative
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rámaeN
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rámaeL
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rámuH
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| Genitive
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rámaiL
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rámaeL
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rámaeN
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| Dative
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rámuL
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rámaib
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rámaib
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Descendants
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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rámae
also rrámae after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
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rámae
pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/
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unchanged
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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