ainmm

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• ainm

Etymology

From Primitive Irish ᚐᚅᚋ (anm), from Proto-Celtic *anman, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anʲmʲ/

Noun

ainmm n (genitive anmae, nominative plural anman)

1. name
   • 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. 24^a38

     Ní epur a n-anman sund.

     I do not mention their names here.

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 118^b6

     Air mad panem nammá du·berad-som ⁊ ní taibred meum, ro·bad dund ṡásad dïant ainm panis tantum no·regad; húare immurgu du·n-uic meum, is ar chech ṡásad da·uic-som amal sodin.

     For if it were panem only that he put and he did not put meum, it would be only to the food to which is [given] the name panis that it would apply; however, because he has put meum, it is for every food then that he has put that.

   • c. 850, Carlsruhe Glosses on St Augustine’s Soliloquia, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. 2, pp. 1–9, Acr. 14^a2

     Bés as·bera-su as n‑ai⟨n⟩m dosom animus ci at·bela.

     Maybe you would say that animus is its name though it may die.

2. reputation, repute, renown
3. (grammar) noun
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 27^a9

     nibí dechor etir diall n-anmann ⁊ pronominum

     there is no difference between the declension of nouns and pronouns

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 211^b6

     ind anme fil ina chomṡuidigud

     of the noun that is a compound

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 216^a1

     anmman do·rónta de dobríathraib

     nouns which have been made from adverbs

Declension

Neuter n-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	ainmmN	ainmmN	anmanL, anmann, anmman
vocative	ainmmN	ainmmN	anmanL, anmann, anmman
accusative	ainmmN	ainmmN	anmanL, anmann, anmman
genitive	anmae	anmanN, anmann, anmman	anmanN, anmann, anmman
dative	anmaimL	anmanaib	anmanaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• ainmmnid
• ainmmnigidir
• ainmmnigud
• do·beir ainm do

Descendants

• Middle Irish: ainm
  • Irish: ainm
  • Manx: ennym
  • Scottish Gaelic: ainm

Mutation

Mutation of ainmm

radical	lenition	nasalization
ainmm (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-ainmm

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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