menic
See also: měníc
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *menekkis. Cognate with Welsh mynych.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mʲenʲəkʲ/
Adjective
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, published in "The Monastery of Tallaght", in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (1911-1912, Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Edward J. Gwynn and Walter J. Purton, vol. 29, pp. 115–179, paragraph 18,
- 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
| 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
- Middle Irish: menic, meinic
- Irish: minic
- Scottish Gaelic: minig
- Manx: mennick
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| menic also mmenic after a proclitic | menic pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/ | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*menekki-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 265
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “meinic(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language