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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Middle Irish amáin, from Old Irish nammá (“only, merely”), a petrified phrase derived from a negated form of má (“more”) (a comparative form of mór, már (“great”)), thus “not more”.
Pronunciation
Adverb
a-mhàin
- only, alone
- purely
Further reading
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “a-mhàin”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN