neph-

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Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Prefix

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neph-

  1. not, non-, un-
    • 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. 7b9
      .i. a n-dliged n-ísin neph-accomoil in[n]a teora lit[er] i [n-]oen-sil[laib]
      i.e. that law of not joining three letters in one syllable
    • c. 775, “Táin Bó Fraích”, in Book of Leinster; republished as Ernst Windisch, editor, Táin bó Fraích, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1974, line 323:
      "Do·géna nephthecht dia cungid. Ní thaibrea th'anmain forru," ol sí.
      You shall not go seek them. You wouldn't give your life for them," she said.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: nem-
    • Irish: neamh-
    • Manx: neu-
    • Scottish Gaelic: neo-

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
neph-
also nneph- after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
neph-
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

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