umae
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- humae
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *omiyom. Cognate with Old Welsh emid (whence Welsh efydd).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈu.ṽe/
Noun
umae n (genitive umai, no plural)
- copper
- bronze, brass
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12b27
- .i. humae fogrigedar .i. crabud cen desercc
- (glossing Latin aes sonans) Brass that sounds, i.e. even devotion without charity
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12b27
Inflection
Neuter io-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | umaeN | — | — |
Vocative | umaeN | — | — |
Accusative | umaeN | — | — |
Genitive | umaiL | — | — |
Dative | umuL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
- Middle Irish: uma
- Irish: umha
- Scottish Gaelic: umha
- Manx: ooha
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
umae | unchanged | n-umae |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*omiyo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 298-299
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “umae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language