etham

Old Irish

Etymology

Derived by Binchy from ith (“grain”) +‎ -em (agent noun suffix), supposedly denoting a day during which grain farmers worked.

Noun

etham m (genitive ethamon)

1. (rare) Wednesday

   Synonym: cétaín

Inflection

Masculine n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	etham	ethamuinL	ethamuin
Vocative	etham	ethamuinL	ethamnaH
Accusative	ethamuinN	ethamuinL	ethamnaH
Genitive	ethamon	ethamonL	ethamonN
Dative	ethamuinL, ethamL	ethamnaib	ethamnaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of etham

radical	lenition	nasalization
etham (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-etham

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

See also

• (days of the week) láe sechtmaine; domnach,‎ lúan,‎ Máirt,‎ cétaín,‎ dardaín,‎ aín dídine,‎ Satharn ^{(Category: sga:Days of the week) [edit]}

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “? 3 etham”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language