amnair

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *awontīr (compare Welsh ewythr, Breton eontr, Cornish ewnter), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂ō ((maternal) grandfather/uncle) (compare Middle Irish ó, Latin avus (grandfather), dialectal German Awwe (grandfather), Ohm (uncle)).

Noun

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amnair m

  1. maternal uncle
    • 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. 61a21
      amnair bráthair máthar glosses auunculus

Inflection

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Only the lemma form is attested, but it is likely to have followed the declension pattern of athair and bráthair.

Descendants

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  • Irish: amhnair, omhnair (obsolete)

Mutation

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

Further reading

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