ainimm

Old Irish

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Borrowed from Latin anima, or possibly from Proto-Celtic *anaman. Both from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁mos, a nominal derivative of *h₂enh₁- (“breathe”).

ainimm f (genitive anmae, nominative plural anmain)

soul, as opposed to corporeal body
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 3^d11
  ind ainim
  the soul
life
living creature, animal

Feminine n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ainimm, a(i)nim, anaim(m)	—	anm(a)in
Vocative	ainimm, a(i)nim, anaim(m)	—	anmana^H
Accusative	anm(a)in^N, anmuin, anim(m)	—	anmana^H
Genitive	anm(a)e	—	anman^N
Dative	anm(a)in^L, anmuin, anim(m)	—	anmanaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ainimm (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-ainimm
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.