creamh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish crem (“dog's leek, wild garlick leek, gentian, buckrams”).

Noun

creamh m (genitive singular creamha)

1. wild garlic, ramsons

Declension

Declension of creamh

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative creamh Vocative a chreamh Genitive creamha Dative creamh

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an creamh Genitive an chreamha Dative leis an gcreamh don chreamh

Derived terms

• creamh (na) muice fia (“hart's-tongue, scolopendrium”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
creamh	chreamh	gcreamh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “creamh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “crem”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish crem (“dog's leek, wild garlick leek, gentian, buckrams”).

Noun

creamh m (genitive singular creamha, plural creamhan)

1. gentian
2. hart's tongue fern
3. garlic
4. leeks
5. elecampane
6. beer

Synonyms

• (garlic): gairleag f

Derived terms

• creamh-gàrraidh m, creamh-ghàraidh m (“chives; leek”)
• creamh mac-féidh m (“asparagus; hart's tongue fern; elecampane”)
• creamh-na-muice-fiadhaich m (“asparagus; hart's tongue fern”)
• creamh nan creag m (“rocambole”, literally “rock garlic”)

References

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