ainmne

Irish

Noun

ainmne

1. plural of ainm

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ainmne	n-ainmne	hainmne	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *anmen-, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stay, remain”). Cognate with Welsh amynedd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈanʲmʲ.nʲe/

Noun

ainmne (gender unknown, genitive ainmnet, no plural)

1. patience
   • 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. 55^a1

     Ná déne ainmnit.

     Do not show patience.

     (literally, “Do not do patience.”)

Inflection

Masculine nt-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ainmne	—	—
Vocative	ainmne	—	—
Accusative	ainmnitN	—	—
Genitive	ainmnet	—	—
Dative	ainmnitL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

• An accusative plural ainmnetea is attested but is considered by Thurneysen to be an artificial formation.

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ainmne	unchanged	n-ainmne
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ainmne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language