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

• cnàimh an droma
• cnàimh an uga
• cnàimh-slinnein
• cnàimhneach

 

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

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “cnàimh”, 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), “cnáim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language