ainmhidh

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish ainmide (“living creature, animal, beast”, literally “having the breath of life, animated”), from Old Irish ainim(m) f (“soul, life”).

Noun

ainmhidh m (genitive singular ainmhidhe, plural ainmhidhean)

  1. animal, beast
    Synonym: beathach
  2. (in the plural) fauna

Mutation

Mutation of ainmhidh
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ainmhidh n-ainmhidh h-ainmhidh t-ainmhidh

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

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “ainmhidh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ainmide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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