acmhainn

Irish

Alternative forms

• acfainn, acfuinn

Etymology

From Old Irish accmaing (“act of encompassing, encircling; power, ability, capacity; means, instrument, apparatus; abundance, wealth”), verbal noun of ad·cumaing (“reaches, extends to, attains to”).

Noun

acmhainn f (genitive singular acmhainne)

1. capacity, endurance
2. means, resources; potentialities

   Synonyms: maoin, gustal

3. equipment, gear

Declension

Declension of acmhainn

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun) Case Singular Nominative acmhainn Vocative a acmhainn Genitive acmhainne Dative acmhainn

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an acmhainn Genitive na hacmhainne Dative leis an acmhainn don acmhainn

Derived terms

• acmhainneach (“strong, able to endure; substantial, well-to-do”, adjective)
• acmhainneacht f (“potential; ability; adequacy”)
• anacmhainn f (“weakness; lack of means”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
acmhainn	n-acmhainn	hacmhainn	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “acmhainn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “accmaing”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “acmhainn”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “acmhainn”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024