adhmad

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish admat (“invention, device, material, timber”), from Proto-Celtic *ad-mentos, from *manyetor (“think, remember”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Cognate with Manx aamaid. O’Rahilly suggests the etymology *ad-mazdo- and cognate maide (“wood, stick”).

Pronunciation

Noun

adhmad m (genitive singular adhmaid, nominative plural adhmaid or adhmadaí)

  1. wood (substance); timber
  2. material, substance
  3. (golf) wood
  4. (literary) device, contrivance; composition, poem

Declension

Declension of adhmad

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative adhmad adhmaid
Vocative a adhmaid a adhmada
Genitive adhmaid adhmad
Dative adhmad adhmaid

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-adhmad na hadhmaid
Genitive an adhmaid na n-adhmad
Dative leis an adhmad

don adhmad

leis na hadhmaid

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
adhmad n-adhmad hadhmad t-adhmad
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “admat”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ O’Rahilly, T. F. (1946) “Varia II: The prefix ad-”, in Celtica, volume 1, page 338
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 17, page 11
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 17, page 9

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