muimme

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mammā (“mom, nanny”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmʊmʲə]

Noun

muimme f

1. wet nurse, foster mother
2. instructress
3. patroness

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	muimmeL	muimmiL	muimmi
Vocative	muimmeL	muimmiL	muimmi
Accusative	muimmiN	muimmiL	muimmi
Genitive	muimme	muimmeL	muimmeN
Dative	muimmiL	muimmib	muimmib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: muime, buime
• Manx: mimmey
• Scottish Gaelic: muime

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
muimme also mmuimme after a proclitic	muimme pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “muim(m)e or dil.ie/32709”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language