nemed

Old Irish

Alternative forms
  • neimed

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *nemetom.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈn͈ʲeṽʲeð]

Noun

nemed m (genitive nemid, nominative plural nemid)

  1. sanctuary
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 13b1
      nemed glosses sacellum
  2. a person with privilege

Inflection
Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative nemed nemedL nemidL
Vocative nemid nemedL nemthiuH
Accusative nemedN nemedL nemthiuH
Genitive nemidL nemed nemedN
Dative nemiudL nemthib nemthib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants
  • Irish: neimheadh

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
nemed
also nnemed after a proclitic		 nemed
pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/		 unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*nemeto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 288

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