muimme

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mammā (“mom, nanny”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmʊmʲə]

Noun

muimme f

1. wet nurse, foster mother
2. instructress
3. patroness

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	muimmeL	muimmiL	muimmi
Vocative	muimmeL	muimmiL	muimmi
Accusative	muimmiN	muimmiL	muimmi
Genitive	muimme	muimmeL	muimmeN
Dative	muimmiL	muimmib	muimmib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: muime, buime
• Manx: mimmey
• Scottish Gaelic: muime

Mutation

Mutation of muimme

radical	lenition	nasalization
muimme also mmuimme after a proclitic ending in a vowel	muimme 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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “muim(m)e or dil.ie/32709”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language