cammaiph
Old Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps from camm (“false”) + oíb (“appearance”)[1]
Pronunciation edit
Thurneysen suggests that the word is “probably to be read with ‑aí‑”, i.e. pronounced [ˈkamaːi̯ɸʲ], based on his proposed etymology. However, it is apparently never written with an acute accent, either in Old Irish or in Middle Irish texts, rendering the pronunciation [ˈkamɨɸʲ] more likely.
Adverb edit
cammaiph
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
cammaiph | chammaiph | cammaiph pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 907, page 560
Further reading edit
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cammaiph”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language