teinm

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tandman.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈt̠ʲenʲmʲ/

Noun

teinm n

verbal noun of teinnid (“to cut, crack open”)

Declension

Neuter n-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	teinm^N	teinm^N	tenman^L
vocative	teinm^N	teinm^N	tenman^L
accusative	teinm^N	teinm^N	tenman^L
genitive	tenmae	tenman^N	tenman^N
dative	tenmaim^L	tenmanaib	tenmanaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Middle Irish: teinm

Mutation

Mutation of *teinm*
radical	lenition	nasalization
teinm	theinm	teinm pronounced with /dʲ-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 teinm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language