námae

See also: namae

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *nāmants, traditionally said to be from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”) + *h₂em- (“love”) (compare Latin amō), but as that verb root is not otherwise attested in Celtic, this may be a folk etymology.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈn͈aːṽe/

Noun

námae m (genitive námat, nominative plural námait)

enemy
- c. 875, 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. 51c9
  is in núall do·ngniat hó ru·maith for a náimtea remib
  it is the cry that they make when their enemies are defeated by them

Declension

Masculine nt-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	námae	námait^L	námait
Vocative	námae	námait^L	náimtea
Accusative	námait^N	námait^L	náimtea
Genitive	námat	námat^L	námat^N
Dative	námait^L	náimtib	náimtib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

náimtide
náimtine

Descendants

Middle Irish: náma
- Irish: namhaid
- Manx: noid
- Scottish Gaelic: nàmhaid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
námae also nnámae after a proclitic	námae pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/	námae also nnámae after a proclitic
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 283

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[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 283