anai

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See also: ân ái

Maranao

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Noun

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anai

  1. Alternative spelling of anay

Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *anawī, plural of *anawos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃neh₂- (to enjoy). Cognate with Middle Welsh anaw.[1]

Noun

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anai m pl (genitive anae)

  1. wealth, riches
    • 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. 68c8
      .i. as ṅdiuparthae .i. cen techtad na n-anae.
      i.e. that he is deprived, i.e. without possessing the riches.

Inflection

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Masculine io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative anaiL
Vocative anu
Accusative anuH
Genitive anaeN
Dative anaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: ana

Mutation

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

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2011 December) “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović[1], Zagreb, page 2

Further reading

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