umae
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Old Irish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Celtic *omiyom. Cognate with Old Welsh emid (whence Welsh efydd).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
umae n (genitive umai, no plural)
- copper
- bronze, brass
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12b27
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12b27
Inflection[edit]
Neuter io-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | umaeN | — | — |
Vocative | umaeN | — | — |
Accusative | umaeN | — | — |
Genitive | umaiL | — | — |
Dative | umuL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants[edit]
Mutation[edit]
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
umae | unchanged | n-umae |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References[edit]
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*omiyo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 298-299
Further reading[edit]
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “umae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language