muimme

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mammā (“mom, nanny”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈmʊmʲə]

Noun

muimme f

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	muimme^L	muimmi^L	muimmi
vocative	muimme^L	muimmi^L	muimmi
accusative	muimmi^N	muimmi^L	muimmi
genitive	muimme	muimme^L	muimme^N
dative	muimmi^L	muimmib	muimmib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Descendants

Irish: muime, buime
Manx: mimmey
Scottish Gaelic: muime

Mutation

Mutation of *muimme*
radical	lenition	nasalization
muimme also mmuimme in h-prothesis environments	muimme pronounced with /β̃-/	muimme also mmuimme

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

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “muim(m)e or dil.ie/32709”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language