neim

Old Irish

From Proto-Celtic *neman, degeminated from Proto-Indo-European *nem-mn̥, from *nem- (“to distribute, give”) + *-mn̥ (verbal noun suffix).^[1] For the semantic relationship, compare German Gift (“poison, toxin”).^[2]

neim n or f (genitive neime, nominative plural neimi) (originally neuter)^[3]

This term declines as a neuter n-stem in the singular and an i-stem in the plural.

Neuter n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	neim^N	neim^N	neimi^H
Vocative	neim^N	neim^N	neimi^H
Accusative	neim^N	neim^N	neimi^H
Genitive	neime	neime^N	neime^N
Dative	neimim^L	neimib	neimib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

^ Byrd, Andrew Miles (2006) “Return to Dative Anmaimm”, in Ériu, volume 56, page 152
^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*nemo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 288
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “neim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language