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ainimm

ainimm

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Noun

ainimm f (genitive anmae, nominative plural anmain)

  1. soul, as opposed to corporeal body
    • 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. 3d11
      ind ainim
      the soul
  2. life
  3. living creature, animal

Inflection

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Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
ainimm unchanged n-ainimm
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • ainim(m)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.