cnàimh

See also: cnáimh

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• cnàmh

Etymology

From Old Irish cnáim, from Proto-Celtic *knāmis, from Proto-Indo-European *kónh₂m (“leg”).

Noun

cnàimh m (genitive singular cnàmha, plural cnàmhan or cnàimhean)

1. bone

Derived terms

• Bliadhna a' Chnàmha (“Year of the Potato Blight in 1846”)
• cnàimh an droma (“backbone, spine, vertebra”)
• cnàimh an uga (“collarbone, clavicle”)
• cnàimhneach (“skeleton”)
• cnàimh-slinnein (“shoulder blade”)

 

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
cnàimh	chnàimh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• “cnàimh” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, →ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cnáim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language