inmedónach

Old Irish

Etymology

From inmedón (“middle”) +‎ -ach

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈinʲβ̃ʲeðoːnax]

Adjective

inmedónach

1. internal
2. (nominalized), insides, guts, innards
   • 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. 67^d14

     Amal rund·gab slíab Sión andes ⁊ antúaid du⟨n⟩ chath⟨raig⟩ dïa dítin, sic rund·gabsat ar ṅdá thoíb du dítin ar n-inmedónach-ni.

     As Mount Sion is located on the south and the north of the city to protect it, so are our two sides there to protect our insides.

Declension

o/ā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	inmedónach	inmedónach	inmedónach
Vocative	inmedónaig* inmedónach**
Accusative	inmedónach	inmedónaig
Genitive	inmedónaig	inmedónaige	inmedónaig
Dative	inmedónach	inmedónaig	inmedónach
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	inmedónaig	inmedónacha
Vocative	inmedónachu inmedónacha†
Accusative	inmedónachu inmedónacha†
Genitive	inmedónach
Dative	inmedónachaib
Notes	*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative † not when substantivized

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
inmedónach (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-inmedónach
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), “inmedónach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language