menic
See also: měníc
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *menekkis. Cognate with Welsh mynych.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
menic (comparative meinciu)
- frequent, often
- 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. 67a4
- .i. mane ⁊ delucolo, airis ainm n-aimsire hi sunt a mane, ciasu menciu fu dobrethir.
- i.e. mane and diluculo, for mane is a noun of time here, although it is more frequent as an adverb.
- c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 18, pages 115-179:
- Ní fil ní do·gné dune dar cend indtí ad·bail nad cobair dó, etir figill & abstanit & gabail necnairci & almsanæ & bendachtæ menci.
- There is nothing that a man does on behalf of one that dies that does not help him, whether [it be] vigil or abstinence, or reciting intercessory prayers or almsgiving, or frequent benediction.
- 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. 67a4
Inflection edit
| i-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | menic | menic | menic |
| Vocative | menic | ||
| Accusative | menic | menic | |
| Genitive | menic | mence | menic |
| Dative | menic | menic | menic |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | menci | menci | |
| Vocative | menci | ||
| Accusative | menci | ||
| Genitive | menic* mence | ||
| Dative | mencib | ||
| Notes | *not when substantivized | ||
Descendants edit
Mutation edit
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| menic also mmenic after a proclitic |
menic pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References edit
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*menekki-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 265
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “meinic(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language