Byrd, Andrew Miles, “Return to dative anmaimm”, Ériu 56 (2006): 145–155.
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The long dative singular ending -(a)im(m) is found in only one class of nouns in Old Irish: the neuter n-stems. Although this ending has been the topic of discussion in numerous treatments of the noun in Old Irish, a convincing scenario for its origin has yet to be put forward. This paper, following a suggestion made by C. Marstrander in his 1911 paper 'Dative anmaimm', attributes the unexpected final -m(m) of the ending to a rule of progressive assimilation, whereby *-mmVn > *-mmVmm in Proto-Insular-Celtic or Proto-Irish. This type of change is quite common cross-linguistically and also has an exact parallel in Avestan.
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