anai

See also: ân ái

Maranao

anai

From Proto-Celtic *anawī, plural of *anawos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃neh₂- (“to enjoy”). Cognate with Middle Welsh anaw.^[1]

anai m pl (genitive anae)

wealth, riches
- 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. 68^c8
  .i. as ṅdiuparthae .i. cen techtad na n-anae.
  i.e. that he is deprived, i.e. without possessing the riches.

Masculine io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	—	—	anai^L
Vocative	—	—	anu
Accusative	—	—	anu^H
Genitive	—	—	anae^N
Dative	—	—	anaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

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

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

^ Matasović, Ranko (2011 December) “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović‎^[1], Zagreb, page 2