deimheas

Irish

From Old Irish demess, from Proto-Celtic *dwimessos, from *dwi- (“double”) + *meteti (“to cut, reap”).^[1]^[2]

deimheas m (genitive singular deimhis, nominative plural deimhis)

Declension of deimheas

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an deimheas	na deimhis
Genitive	an deimhis	na ndeimheas
Dative	leis an deimheas don deimheas	leis na deimhis

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
deimheas	dheimheas	ndeimheas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

^ Pedersen, Holger (1909) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume I, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 99.1, pages 162–163
^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 383, page 34
^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 82
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 88, page 35

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “deimes”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “deiṁeas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 234
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “deimheas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN