amnair

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *awontīr (compare Welsh ewythr, Breton eontr, Cornish ewnter), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂ō (“(maternal) grandfather/uncle”) (compare Middle Irish ó, Latin avus (“grandfather”), dialectal German Awwe (“grandfather”), Ohm (“uncle”)).

Noun

amnair m

  1. maternal uncle
    • 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. 61a21
      amnair bráthair máthar glosses auunculus

Inflection

Only the lemma form is attested, but it is likely to have followed the declension pattern of athair and bráthair.

Descendants

  • Irish: amhnair, omhnair (obsolete)

Mutation

Mutation of amnair
radical lenition nasalization
amnair
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)		 amnair n-amnair

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

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