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cnáim

cnáim

Old Irish

cnáimh

Noun

cnáim m ‎(genitive cnámo or cnáma, nominative plural cnámai)

bone

Inflection

Masculine i-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Irish: cnámh
Manx: craue
Scottish Gaelic: cnàimh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cnáimh	chnáimh	cnáimh pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

“cnáim” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.