Cíchmuine

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• Cichmuine, Cichmhuine, Cíchmaine

Etymology

From Primitive Irish ᚉᚉᚔᚉᚐᚋᚔᚅᚔ (ccicamini), equivalent to cích +‎ min literally 'having small breasts'.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʲiːxmunʲə/

Proper noun

Cíchmuine m

1. a male given name

Mutation

Mutation of Cíchmuine

radical	lenition	nasalization
Cíchmuine	Chíchmuine	Cíchmuine pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

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

References

1. Ziegler, Sabine (1994) Alfred Bammesberger and Günter Neumann, editors, Die Sprache der altirischen Ogam-Inschriften [The language of the Old Irish Ogham inscriptions] (Historische Sprachforschung; Ergänzungsheft 36) (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 149

Further reading

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