umae

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *omiyom. Cognate with Old Welsh emid (whence Welsh efydd).

Pronunciation

Noun

umae n (genitive umai, no plural)

  1. copper
  2. bronze, brass
    • 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. 12b27
      .i. humae fogrigedar .i. crabud cen desercc
      (glossing Latin aes sonans) Brass that sounds, i.e. even devotion without charity

Inflection

Neuter io-stem
singular dual plural
nominative umaeN — —
vocative umaeN — —
accusative umaeN — —
genitive umaiL — —
dative umuL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: uma

Mutation

Mutation of umae
radical lenition nasalization
umae
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) 		unchanged n-umae

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*omiyo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 298-299

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