amnair

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *awontīr (compare Welsh ewythr, Breton eontr, Cornish ewnter), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂ō ((maternal) grandfather/uncle) (compare Middle Irish ó, Latin avus (grandfather), dialectal German Awwe (grandfather), Ohm (uncle)).

Noun

amnair m

  1. maternal uncle

Inflection

Only the lemma form is attested.

Mutation

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

Further reading

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