etham

Old Irish

Etymology

Derived by Binchy from ith (“grain”) +‎ -em (agent noun suffix), supposedly denoting a day during which grain farmers worked.

Noun

etham m (genitive ethamon)

1. (rare) Wednesday

   Synonym: cétaín

Inflection

Masculine n-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	etham	ethamuinL	ethamuin
vocative	etham	ethamuinL	ethamnaH
accusative	ethamuinN	ethamuinL	ethamnaH
genitive	ethamon	ethamonL	ethamonN
dative	ethamuinL, ethamL	ethamnaib	ethamnaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Mutation

Mutation of etham

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

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

See also

• days of the week: láe sechtmaine (appendix): domnach · lúan · Máirt · cétaín · dardaín · aín dídine · Satharn ^[edit]

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “? 3 etham”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language