menmae

Old Irish

menmae m (genitive menman, nominative plural menmain)

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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. 13^a12
Má beid ní di rúnaib do·théi ar menmuin ind ḟir bíis inna ṡuidiu et ad·reig.
If there are any of the mysteries that may come upon the mind of the man who is sitting, and he rises.
c. 800–825, Diarmait, 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. 50^d7
Húare is hi foscud menman ru·rádus-sa inna bríathra as·ruburt, is airi insin ro·cúala-su guth m’ernaigde-se.
Because it is in darkness of mind that I have spoken the words that I said, therefore you have heard the voice of my prayers.

Mutation of *menmae*
radical	lenition	nasalization
menmae also mmenmae in h-prothesis environments	menmae pronounced with /β̃ʲ-/	menmae also mmenmae

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

^ Stüber, Karin (1998) The Historical Morphology of n-Stems in Celtic (Maynooth studies in Celtic linguistics; III), Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, →ISBN, pages 172-173