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Irish
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ádhamh m (genitive Ádhaimh)
- a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Adam
- (biblical) Adam
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| Ádhamh
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nÁdhamh
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hÁdhamh
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tÁdhamh
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Ádhamh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “Ádam”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Ádhamh”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “Ádhamh”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024