muimme
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Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *mammā (“mom, nanny”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]muimme f
Inflection
[edit]| 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:
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Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| muimme also mmuimme after a proclitic |
muimme pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
| 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), “muim(m)e or dil.ie/32709”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language