ainmne

Irish

ainmne

Mutated forms of *ainmne*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ainmne	n-ainmne	hainmne	not applicable

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

ainmne (gender unknown, genitive ainmnet, no plural)

patience
- 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. 55^a1
  Ná déne ainmnit.
  Do not show patience.
  (literally, “Do not do patience.”)

Masculine nt-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ainmne	—	—
Vocative	ainmne	—	—
Accusative	ainmnit^N	—	—
Genitive	ainmnet	—	—
Dative	ainmnit^L	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

An accusative plural ainmnetea is attested but is considered by Thurneysen to be an artificial formation.^[2]

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

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

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*an-men-V-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 38
^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 208; reprinted 2017