mídénum
Appearance
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From mí- (“bad, un-”) + dénum (“deed”).
Noun
[edit]mídénum m (genitive mídénma)
- 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
- 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
Inflection
[edit]Masculine u-stem | |||
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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:
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Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
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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
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mí-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language