cammaiph

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• camai, camaiph, cammaib, cammaif

Etymology

Perhaps from camm (“false”) +‎ oíb (“appearance”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkamɨɸʲ]
• (possibly) IPA^(key): [ˈkamaːi̯ɸʲ]

Thurneysen suggests that the word is “probably to be read with ‑aí‑”, i.e. pronounced [ˈkamaːi̯ɸʲ], based on his proposed etymology. However, it is apparently never written with an acute accent, either in Old Irish or in Middle Irish texts, rendering the pronunciation [ˈkamɨɸʲ] more likely.

Adverb

cammaiph

1. however

Synonyms

• immurgu

Derived terms

• camaiph immurgu

Mutation

Mutation of cammaiph

radical	lenition	nasalization
cammaiph	chammaiph	cammaiph pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

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