mídénum
Old Irish
Etymology
From mí- (“bad, un-”) + dénum (“deed”).
Noun
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
| Masculine u-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| mídenum also mmídenum after a proclitic | mídenum pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/ | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “mí-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language