trummae

Old Irish

Etymology

From trom (“heavy”).

Noun

trummae f

1. heaviness
   • 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. 20^a19

     .i. cid etrum aicned ind reto dia·tormastar a mét do·gní trumai ndo iarum in met-sin.

     Although the nature of the thing may be light, if its quantity should be increased, that quantity causes heaviness to it afterwards.

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 9^b18

     Is sainreth do interiect guth formúigthe co trummai thinfid.

     A peculiarity of an interjection is a smothered sound with heaviness of aspiration.

Declension

Feminine iā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	trummaeL	trummaiL	trummai
vocative	trummaeL	trummaiL	trummai
accusative	trummaiN	trummaiL	trummai
genitive	trummae	trummaeL	trummaeN
dative	trummaiL	trummaib	trummaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Mutation

Mutation of trummae

radical	lenition	nasalization
trummae	thrummae	trummae pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/

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), “trummae, truime”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language