ammait

Old Irish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈamidʲ/

Noun

ammait f (genitive ammaite, nominative plural ammaiti)

1. woman with supernatural powers, witch, hag, spectre
2. foolish woman

Inflection

Feminine ī-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	ammaitL	ammaitL	ammaitiH
vocative	ammaitL	ammaitL	ammaitiH
accusative	ammaitiN	ammaitL	ammaitiH
genitive	ammaiteH	ammaiteL	ammaiteN
dative	ammaitiL	ammaitib	ammaitib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Synonyms

• (woman with supernatural powers): bandraí

Descendants

• Irish: amaid
• ⇒ Middle Irish: amaidecht
• ⇒ Middle Irish: *ammatán
  • Irish: amadán
  • Manx: ommidan
  • Scottish Gaelic: amadan

Mutation

Mutation of ammait

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

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