cnàmh
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See also: cnámh
Scottish Gaelic[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
See cnàimh.
Noun[edit]
cnàmh m (genitive singular cnàimh, plural cnàmhan)
- Alternative form of cnàimh (“bone”)
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old Irish cnám, from Proto-Celtic *knāyeti (“to bite”), from Proto-Indo-European *kneh₂-.[1] Compare Old Irish con·cnaí (“chews, masticates, gnaws”), verbal noun cnaïd.
Noun[edit]
cnàmh m (genitive singular cnàimh)
- verbal noun of cnàmh
- Synonym: cnàmhadh
- (act of) digesting
- digestion
- decay
- erosion
- (with definite article, an) blight
Verb[edit]
cnàmh (past chnàmh, future cnàmhaidh, verbal noun cnàmh, cnàmhadh, past participle cnàmhte)
Derived terms[edit]
- dì-chnàmhadh m (“indigestion”)
References[edit]
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “kna-yo”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 211
Mutation[edit]
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
cnàmh | chnàmh |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References[edit]
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “cnàmh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cnám”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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