nemed

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • neimed

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *nemetom.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈn͈ʲeβ̃ʲeð]

Noun

nemed m (genitive nemid, nominative plural nemid)

  1. sanctuary
    • 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. 13b1
      nemed glosses sacellum
  2. a person with privilege

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative nemed nemedL nemidL
vocative nemid nemedL nemthiuH
accusative nemedN nemedL nemthiuH
genitive nemidL nemed nemedN
dative nemiudL nemthib nemthib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Irish: neimheadh

Mutation

Mutation of nemed
radical lenition nasalization
nemed
also nnemed in h-prothesis environments		 nemed
pronounced with /nʲ-/		 nemed
also nnemed

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

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*nemeto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 288

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