maíomh

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish moídem.[2] By surface analysis, maígh +‎ -amh.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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maíomh m (genitive singular as substantive maímh, genitive as verbal noun maíte)

  1. boast
  2. claim, assertion
  3. verbal noun of maígh

Declension

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As substantive:

As verbal noun:

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
maíomh mhaíomh not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ maíomh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “moídem”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 326, page 113

Further reading

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