ainmne
plural ofainm Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
FromProto-Celtic *anmen- Proto-Indo-European *men- ( “ to stay, remain ” ) . Cognate withWelsh amynedd [ 1]
ainmne (gender unknown ,genitive ainmnet no plural )
patience c. 800–825 , Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published inThesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55a 1Ná déneainmnit . Do not show patience. (literally, “Do not do patience. ”) Masculine nt-stem singular dual plural nominative ainmne — — vocative ainmne — — accusative ainmnit N — — genitive ainmnet — — dative ainmnit L — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
H = triggers aspirationL = triggers lenitionN = triggers nasalizationAn accusative pluralainmnetea [ 2] Mutation ofainmne radical lenition nasalization ainmne ( pronounced with/h/ inh -prothesis environments ) ainmne n-ainmne
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
^ Matasović, Ranko (2009 ), “*an-men-V-”, inEtymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden:Brill ,→ISBN page38 ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940 ) [1909 ],D. A. Binchy andOsborn Bergin , transl.,A Grammar of Old Irish , Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation ofHandbuch des Alt-Irischen →ISBN 208 ; reprinted2017 
