anai

See also: ân ái

Maranao

Noun

anai

1. Alternative spelling of anay

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *anawī, plural of *anawos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃neh₂- (“to enjoy”). Cognate with Middle Welsh anaw.

Noun

anai m pl (genitive anae)

1. wealth, riches
   • 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. 68^c8

     .i. as ṅdiuparthae .i. cen techtad na n-anae.

     i.e. that he is deprived, i.e. without possessing the riches.

Inflection

Masculine io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	—	—	anaiL
Vocative	—	—	anu
Accusative	—	—	anuH
Genitive	—	—	anaeN
Dative	—	—	anaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: ana
  • Irish: ana

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
anai (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-anai
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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