námae

See also: namae

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *nāmants, traditionally said to be from Proto-Indo-European *ne (not) + *h₂em- (love) (compare Latin amō), but as that verb root is not otherwise attested in Celtic, this may be a folk etymology.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈn͈aːṽe/

Noun

námae m (genitive námat, nominative plural námait)

  1. enemy
    • c. 875, 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. 51c9
      is in núall do·ngniat hó ru·maith for a náimtea remib
      it is the cry that they make when their enemies are defeated by them

Declension

Masculine nt-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative námae námaitL námait
Vocative námae námaitL náimtea
Accusative námaitN námaitL náimtea
Genitive námat námatL námatN
Dative námaitL náimtib náimtib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

  • náimtide
  • náimtine

Descendants

Mutation

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

Further reading

  • náma(e)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

References

  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 283
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