See also: ân ái

Maranao edit

Noun edit

anai

  1. Alternative spelling of anay

Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Celtic *anawī, plural of *anawos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃neh₂- (to enjoy). Cognate with Middle Welsh anaw.[1]

Noun edit

anai m pl (genitive anae)

  1. wealth, riches
    • 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. 68c8
      .i. as ṅdiuparthae .i. cen techtad na n-anae.
      i.e. that he is deprived, i.e. without possessing the riches.

Inflection edit

Masculine io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative anaiL
Vocative anu
Accusative anuH
Genitive anaeN
Dative anaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants edit

  • Middle Irish: ana

Mutation edit

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

References edit

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2011 December) “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović[1], Zagreb, page 2

Further reading edit

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