íarmue

Old Irish

Etymology

From íarm- (“after”) +‎ aue (“grandson, descendant”).

Noun

íarmue m (nominative plural íarmui)

1. great-grandson

Inflection

Masculine io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	íarmue	íarmueL	íarmuiL
Vocative	íarmui	íarmueL	íarmuu
Accusative	íarmueN	íarmueL	íarmuuH
Genitive	íarmuiL	íarmueL	íarmueN
Dative	íarmuuL	íarmuib	íarmuib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: íarmúa, íarmó
  • Scottish Gaelic: iar-ogha (with prefix leveling)

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
íarmue	unchanged	n-íarmue
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “íarmúa, íarmó”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language