námae
See also: namae
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *nāmants, traditionally said to be from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”) + *h₂em- (“love”) (compare Latin amō), but as that verb root is not otherwise attested in Celtic, this may be a folk etymology.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
námae m (genitive námat, nominative plural námait)
- enemy
- 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. 51c9
- is in núall do·ngniat hó ru·maith for a náimtea remib
- it is the cry that they make when their enemies are defeated by them
- 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. 51c9
Declension
Masculine nt-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | námae | námaitL | námait |
Vocative | námae | námaitL | náimtea |
Accusative | námaitN | námaitL | náimtea |
Genitive | námat | námatL | námatN |
Dative | námaitL | náimtib | náimtib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
námae also nnámae after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
námae pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “náma(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 283
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