immáin

Old Irish

Noun

immáin f or m

1. verbal noun of imm·aig
2. act of driving (cattle, etc.)
3. (sports) driving a ball, hurling, ball-playing
4. wandering, roaming about
5. a drove
6. superiority, control

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Irish: iomáin, iomáint, iománaíocht
• Manx: imman, immanaght
• Scottish Gaelic: iomain

Mutation

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

References

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