cnáim

Old Irish

cnáim

From Proto-Celtic *knāmis, from Proto-Indo-European *kónh₂m (“leg”). Cognate with Ancient Greek κνήμη (knḗmē, “tibia”) and English ham.

cnáim m (genitive cnámo or cnáma, nominative plural cnámai)

bone
- 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. 4^d15
  In Belzefuth: is béss didu ind lïacc benir il-béim friss, et intí do·thuit foir ɔ·boing a chnámi, intí fora tuit-som immurgu at·bail-side.
  The Beelzebub: it is the custom, then, of the stone that many blows are hit against it, and he who falls upon it breaks his bones; however, he whom it falls on perishes

Masculine i-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	cnáim	cnáim^L	cnámai^H, cnámi
Vocative	cnáim	cnáim^L	cnámai^H, cnámi
Accusative	cnáim^N	cnáim^L	cnámai^H, cnámi
Genitive	cnámo^H, cnáma^H	cnámo^H, cnáma^H	cnámae^N
Dative	cnáim^L	cnámaib	cnámaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cnáim	chnáim	cnáim pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.