namhaid
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Irish náma, 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
namhaid m or f (genitive singular namhad, nominative plural naimhde)
Declension
Declension of namhaid
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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- Alternative genitive plural: namhad
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 283
Further reading
- “namhaid”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “namhaid”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “náma(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “náṁaid”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 507
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “namhaid”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “namhaid”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
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