íarmue

Old Irish

Etymology

From íarm- (“after”) +‎ aue (“grandson, descendant”).

Noun

íarmue m (nominative plural íarmui)

1. great-grandson

Inflection

Masculine io-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	íarmue	íarmueL	íarmuiL
vocative	íarmui	íarmueL	íarmuu
accusative	íarmueN	íarmueL	íarmuuH
genitive	íarmuiL	íarmueL	íarmueN
dative	íarmuuL	íarmuib	íarmuib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Descendants

• Middle Irish: íarmúa, íarmó
  • Scottish Gaelic: iar-ogha (with prefix leveling)

Mutation

Mutation of íarmue

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

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), “íarmúa, íarmó”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language