menmae

Old Irish

menmae m (genitive menman, nominative plural menmain)

the mind
- 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. 13^a12
  Má beid ní di rúnaib do·théi ar menmuin ind ḟir bíis inna ṡuidiu et ad·reig.
  If there are any of the mysteries that may come upon the mind of the man who is sitting, and he rises.
thinking, understanding
thought, heed, attention
spirit, courage, self-confidence
desire, inclination

Masculine n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	menmae	menmain^L, menmuin	menmain, menmuin, menmana
Vocative	menmae	menmain^L, menmuin	menmana^H
Accusative	menmain^N, menmuin	menmain^L, menmuin	menmana^H
Genitive	menman	menman^L	menman^N
Dative	menmain^L, menmae^L, menmuin	menmanaib	menmanaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

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

Stüber, Karin (1998) The Historical Morphology of n-Stems in Celtic (Maynooth studies in Celtic linguistics; III), Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, →ISBN, pages 172-173