menic
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See also: měníc
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *menekkis. Cognate with Welsh mynych.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]menic (comparative meinciu)
- frequent, often
- 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. 67a4
- .i. mane ⁊ delucolo, airis ainm n-aimsire hi sunt a mane, ciasu menciu fu dobrethir.
- i.e. mane and diluculo, for mane is a noun of time here, although it is more frequent as an adverb.
- c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 18, pages 115-179:
- Ní fil ní do·gné dune dar cend indtí ad·bail nad cobair dó, etir figill & abstanit & gabail necnairci & almsanæ & bendachtæ menci.
- There is nothing that a man does on behalf of one that dies that does not help him, whether [it be] vigil or abstinence, or reciting intercessory prayers or almsgiving, or frequent benediction.
- 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. 67a4
Inflection
[edit]| i-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | menic | menic | menic |
| Vocative | menic | ||
| Accusative | menic | menic | |
| Genitive | menic | mence | menic |
| Dative | menic | menic | menic |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | menci | menci | |
| Vocative | menci | ||
| Accusative | menci | ||
| Genitive | menic* mence | ||
| Dative | mencib | ||
| Notes | *not when substantivized | ||
Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| menic also mmenic after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
menic 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.
References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*menekki-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 265
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “meinic(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language