anmcharae

Old Irish

Etymology

From ainim(m) (“soul”) +‎ carae (“friend”).

Noun

anmcharae m

1. soul-friend, confessor, spiritual director

Inflection

Masculine nt-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	anmcharae	anmcharaitL	anmcharait
vocative	anmcharae	anmcharaitL	anmchairtea
accusative	anmcharaitN	anmcharaitL	anmchairtea
genitive	anmcharat	anmcharatL	anmcharatN
dative	anmcharaitL	anmchairtib	anmchairtib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Mutation

Mutation of anmcharae

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

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

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “anmcharae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language