amnair
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Old Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Celtic *awontīr (compare Welsh ewythr, Breton eontr, Cornish ewnter), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂ō (“(maternal) grandfather/uncle”) (compare Middle Irish ó, Latin avus (“grandfather”), dialectal German Awwe (“grandfather”), Ohm (“uncle”)).
Noun[edit]
amnair m
Inflection[edit]
Only the lemma form is attested, but it is likely to have followed the declension pattern of athair and bráthair.
Descendants[edit]
Mutation[edit]
Old Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
amnair | unchanged | n-amnair |
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), “amnair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language