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mídénum

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From mí- (bad, un-) +‎ dénum (deed).

Noun

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mídénum m (genitive mídénma)

  1. misdeed, wrongdoing
    • 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. 71b9
      .i. trí mídenum frium
      i.e. through doing evil to me

Inflection

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Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative mídénum mídénumL mídénmae
Vocative mídénum mídénumL mídénmu
Accusative mídénumN mídénumL mídénmu
Genitive mídénmoH, mídénmaH mídénmo, mídénma mídénmaeN
Dative mídénumL mídénmaib mídénmaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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Mutation of mídénum
radical lenition nasalization
mídenum
also mmídenum after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
mídenum
pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/
unchanged

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

Further reading

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