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Scottish Gaelic
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
See cnàimh.
Noun
cnàmh m (genitive singular cnàimh, plural cnàmhan)
- Alternative form of cnàimh (“bone”)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Old Irish cnám, from Proto-Celtic *knāyeti (“to bite”), from Proto-Indo-European *kneh₂-.[1] Compare Old Irish con·cnaí (“chews, masticates, gnaws”), verbal noun cnaïd.
Noun
cnàmh m (genitive singular cnàimh)
- verbal noun of cnàmh
- Synonym: cnàmhadh
- (act of) digesting
- digestion
- decay
- erosion
- (with definite article, an) blight
Verb
cnàmh (past chnàmh, future cnàmhaidh, verbal noun cnàmh, cnàmhadh, past participle cnàmhte)
- chew, gnaw, masticate
- corrode (metal)
- digest
Derived terms
References
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “cnàmh”, 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), “cnám”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language