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 maternal uncle c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 61a21 amnair bráthair máthar glosses auunculus ==== Inflection ==== Only the lemma form is attested, but it is likely to have followed the declension pattern of athair and bráthair. ==== Descendants ==== Irish: amhnair, omhnair (obsolete) === Mutation === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “amnair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language