umae

Old Irish

Alternative forms
  • humae

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *omiyom. Cognate with Old Welsh emid (whence Welsh efydd).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈu.ṽe/

Noun

umae n (genitive umai, no plural)

  1. copper
  2. bronze, brass
    • 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. 12b27
      .i. humae fogrigedar .i. crabud cen desercc
      (glossing Latin aes sonans) Brass that sounds, i.e. even devotion without charity

Inflection
Neuter io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative umaeN — —
Vocative umaeN — —
Accusative umaeN — —
Genitive umaiL — —
Dative umuL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants
  • Middle Irish: uma
    • Irish: umha
    • Scottish Gaelic: umha
    • Manx: ooha

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
umae unchanged n-umae
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*omiyo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 298-299

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