ómun

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *oβnus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈo(ː)ṽun/

Noun

ómun m (genitive homno)

  1. fear
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 59a18
      .i. ómun epertae nad·rabae remdeicsiu Dǽ dim-so intan do·rata form inna fochaidi.
      i.e. fear of saying that there was no providence of God for me, when the tribulations were inflicted upon me.
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 128d7
      .i. ermitiu feid homno
      i.e. reverence of the fear of God (explaining Latin reverentia (reverence))

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ómun ómunL omnae
Vocative ómun ómunL omnu
Accusative ómunN ómunL omnu
Genitive omnoH, omnaH omno, omna omnaeN
Dative ómunL omnaib omnaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Irish: uamhan

Mutation

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

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