ainmne
Irish
Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| ainmne | n-ainmne | hainmne | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *anmen-, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stay, remain”). Cognate with Welsh amynedd.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈanʲmʲ.nʲe/
Noun
ainmne (gender unknown, genitive ainmnet, no plural)
- patience
- 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. 55a1
- Ná déne ainmnit.
- Do not show patience.
- (literally, “Do not do patience.”)
- 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. 55a1
Inflection
| Masculine nt-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | ainmne | — | — |
| Vocative | ainmne | — | — |
| Accusative | ainmnitN | — | — |
| Genitive | ainmnet | — | — |
| Dative | ainmnitL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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- An accusative plural ainmnetea is attested but is considered by Thurneysen to be an artificial formation.[2]
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| ainmne | unchanged | n-ainmne |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*an-men-V-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 38
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 208
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ainmne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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