amnair
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *awontīr (compare Welsh ewythr, Breton eontr, Cornish ewnter), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂ō (“(maternal) grandfather/uncle”) (compare Middle Irish ó, Latin avus (“grandfather”), dialectal German Awwe (“grandfather”), Ohm (“uncle”)).
Noun edit
amnair m
Inflection edit
Only the lemma form is attested, but it is likely to have followed the declension pattern of athair and bráthair.
Descendants edit
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
amnair | unchanged | n-amnair |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “amnair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language