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Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Irish ainmide (“living creature, animal, beast”, literally “having the breath of life, animated”), from Old Irish ainim(m) (“soul, life”).
Noun
ainmhí m (genitive singular ainmhí, nominative plural ainmhithe)
- animal
- brute, monster
Declension
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Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
ainmhí
- inflection of ainmheach:
- genitive singular feminine
- comparative degree
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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ainmhí
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n-ainmhí
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hainmhí
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t-ainmhí
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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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Further reading
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ainmhí”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “ainmhí”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ainmhí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ainmide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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