maidm

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maðʲmʲ/

Noun

maidm n (genitive madmae)

1. verbal noun of maidid: bursting, breaking
   • Sechtae, published in Ancient Laws of Ireland: Uraicecht Becc and Certain Other Selected Brehon Law Tracts (1901, Dublin: Stationery Office), edited and with translations by W. Neilson Hancock, Thaddeus O'Mahony, Alexander George Richey, and Robert Atkinson, vol. 5, pp. 117-373, page 310, line 4

     maidm a scéith for a du(i)rn(d)

     the bursting of a shield upon his fist

   • c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe, TBC-I 555

     "Ro·fedammar ém," ol Conchobar. Do·be(i)r gá[e] ⁊ scíath dó. Bertaigis forra conná térna ní dona .v. gaiscedaib déc no·bitis d'imorcraid hi teaglach Concho[bair] fri maidm n-airm nó fri gabáil ngaiscid do neoch.

     "We know him, indeed," said Conchobar. He gave [Cú Chulainn] a spear and a shield. Cú Chulainn brandished them in [the middle of the hall] so that there was nothing left of 15 weapons that had been spares in Conchobar's household [reserved] for the breaking of weapons or for someone to take up arms.

2. rout, defeat, victory (with ré indicating the victor and for indicating the loser)
   • c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe, TBC-YBL 3617

     Do·lotar […] ó Medb […] do ebert madma[e] for hUlltu […]

     [The handmaidens] came from Medb to tell of the defeat of the Ulstermen...

   • 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. 33^b11

     .i. maidm riam

     a victory for 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. 84^c6

     .i. madmae remib

     of a victory for 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. 84^c9

     iar mai[d]m chatha forru

     after a victory over them in battle

Inflection

Neuter n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	maidmN	maidmN	madmanL
Vocative	maidmN	maidmN	madmanL
Accusative	maidmN	maidmN	madmanL
Genitive	madmae	madmanN	madmanN
Dative	madmaimL	madmanaib	madmanaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: maidm
  • Irish: maidhm

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
maidm also mmaidm after a proclitic	maidm pronounced with /β̃(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), “maidm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language