ainmmnid

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• ainmnid

Etymology

From ainmm (“name”) +‎ -id, calque of Latin nōminātīvus.

Noun

ainmmnid m (genitive ainmnedo or ainmneda, nominative plural ainmmnidi)

1. (grammar) nominative case.
   • 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. 93^b5

     conid riagolda caro dond ainmmnid

     conid is regular as the nominative

Inflection

Masculine i-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	ainmmnid	ainmmnidL	ainmmnidiH
vocative	ainmmnid	ainmmnidL	ainmmnidiH
accusative	ainmmnidN	ainmmnidL	ainmmnidiH
genitive	ainmmnedoH, ainmmnedaH	ainmmnedoH, ainmmnedaH	ainmmnideN
dative	ainmmnidL	ainmmnidib	ainmmnidib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: ainmní

Mutation

Mutation of ainmmnid

radical	lenition	nasalization
ainmmnid (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-ainmmnid

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ainmmnid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language