mídénum
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom mí- (“bad, un-”) + dénum (“deed”).
Noun
editmídénum m (genitive mídénma)
- misdeed, wrongdoing
- 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. 71b9
- .i. trí mídenum frium
- i.e. through doing evil to me
- 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. 71b9
Inflection
editMasculine u-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | mídénum | mídénumL | mídénmae |
Vocative | mídénum | mídénumL | mídénmu |
Accusative | mídénumN | mídénumL | mídénmu |
Genitive | mídénmoH, mídénmaH | mídénmo, mídénma | mídénmaeN |
Dative | mídénumL | mídénmaib | mídénmaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
mídenum also mmídenum after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
mídenum 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
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mí-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language