náma
Icelandic
Pronunciation
Noun
náma f (genitive singular námu, nominative plural námur)
Declension
declension of náma
Synonyms
Derived terms
- jarðvarmanáma (geothermal reservoir)
- varmanáma (heat reservoir)
- yfirborðsnáma (strip mine)
Middle Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish námae, from Proto-Celtic *nāmants, traditionally said to be from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”) + *h₂em- (“love”) (compare Latin amō), but as that verb root is not otherwise attested in Celtic, this may be a folk etymology.[1]
Noun
náma m (genitive námat, plural námait)
Descendants
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “náma(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 283
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