clíamain
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Middle Irish
[edit]Etymology
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Noun
[edit]clíamain m (genitive clémna)
- (male) in-law
Descendants
[edit]- Irish: cliamhain
- Manx: cleuin
- Scottish Gaelic: cliamhainn
Mutation
[edit]| Middle Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| clíamain | chlíamain | clíamain pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “clíamain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language