Ádhamh

See also: Àdhamh

Irish

From Old Irish Ádam, from Latin Ādām, Ādāmus, from Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ, Ἄδαμος (Adám, Ádamos), from Biblical Hebrew אָדָם (ʾāḏām, “person, human”), from אֲדָמָה (ʾăḏāmâ, “earth, soil”).

Ádhamh m (genitive Ádhaimh)

Declension of Ádhamh (first declension, no plural)

forms with the definite article
case	singular
nominative	an tÁdhamh
genitive	an Ádhaimh
dative	leis an Ádhamh don Ádhamh

Ádhamhchlann (“the human race”, literally “the children of Adam”)
síol Ádhaimh, sliocht Ádhaimh (“the human race”, literally “Adam’s descendants”)

Mutated forms of *Ádhamh*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
Ádhamh	nÁdhamh	hÁdhamh	tÁdhamh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 52

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