ainmne
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Irish
[edit]Noun
[edit]ainmne
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
ainmne | n-ainmne | hainmne | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *anmen-, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stay, remain”). Cognate with Welsh amynedd.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ainmne (gender unknown, genitive ainmnet, no plural)
- patience
- 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. 55a1
- Ná déne ainmnit.
- Do not show patience.
- (literally, “Do not do patience.”)
- 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. 55a1
Inflection
[edit]Masculine nt-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | ainmne | — | — |
Vocative | ainmne | — | — |
Accusative | ainmnitN | — | — |
Genitive | ainmnet | — | — |
Dative | ainmnitL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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- An accusative plural ainmnetea is attested but is considered by Thurneysen to be an artificial formation.[2]
Mutation
[edit]Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
ainmne (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-ainmne |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*an-men-V-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 38
- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 208
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ainmne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Irish non-lemma forms
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- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *men- (stay)
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- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish nouns
- Old Irish terms with quotations
- Old Irish masculine or feminine nt-stem nouns
- Old Irish uncountable nouns