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Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman damage, from Latin damnum.
Pronunciation
Noun
damáiste m (genitive singular damáiste, nominative plural damáistí)
- damage
- harm, injury
Declension
Synonyms
Mutation
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| damáiste
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dhamáiste
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ndamáiste
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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
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “domáiste”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “damáiste”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “damáiste”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 222
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “damáiste”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN