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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish dám (“company, retinue”).[2] Doublet of dámh. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic dàimh.
Pronunciation
Noun
dáimh f (genitive singular dáimhe)
- affection (feeling of love or strong attachment)
- Synonyms: caithis, cion, gean
- friendship
- Synonyms: cairdeas, muintearas
- sympathy (mutual relationship)
- Synonym: bá
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| dáimh
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dháimh
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ndáimh
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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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References
- ^ “dáimh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dám”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 172, page 65
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