adhmad

Irish

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From Old Irish admat (“invention, device, material, timber”), from Proto-Celtic *ad-mentos, from *manyetor (“think, remember”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Cognate with Manx aamaid. T.F. O' Rahilly suggests the etymology *ad-mazdo- and cognate maide "wood, stick".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈəimˠəd̪ˠ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːmˠəd̪ˠ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈæːmˠəd̪ˠ/

Noun

adhmad m (genitive singular adhmaid, nominative plural adhmaid or adhmadaí)

1. wood (substance); timber
2. material, substance
3. (golf) wood
4. (literary) device, contrivance; composition, poem

Declension

Declension of adhmad

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative adhmad adhmaid Vocative a adhmaid a adhmada Genitive adhmaid adhmad Dative adhmad adhmaid

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-adhmad na hadhmaid Genitive an adhmaid na n-adhmad Dative leis an adhmad don adhmad leis na hadhmaid

• Variant plural: adhmadaí

Derived terms

• adhmad bog m, bogadhmad m (“softwood”)
• adhmad burra m, burra-adhmad m (“burr wood”)
• adhmad eocalaipe m (“eucalyptus (wood)”)
• adhmad gallchnó m (“walnut (wood)”)
• adhmad giúise m (“fir (wood)”)
• adhmad lom m (“undressed timber”)
• adhmad raice m (“driftwood”)
• adhmad silín m (“cherrywood”)
• adhmad tine m (“firewood”)
• adhmadach (“woody”, adjective)
• adhmadóireacht f (“woodworking”)
• adhmadóir m (“woodworker”)
• adhmadúil (“ligneous”, adjective)
• croí-adhmad m (“heartwood”)
• crua-adhmad m (“hardwood”)
• gar-adhmaid m pl (“gunwale]]”)
• sú-adhmad m (“sapwood”)

 

Mutation

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

Further reading

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