Irish

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Noun

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ainmne

  1. plural of ainm

Mutation

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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

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *anmen-, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (to stay, remain). Cognate with Welsh amynedd.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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. 55a1
      Ná déne ainmnit.
      Do not show patience.
      (literally, “Do not do patience.”)

Inflection

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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.[2]

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
ainmne
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-ainmne
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*an-men-V-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 38
  2. ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 208

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