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