damh

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Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish dam (“ox, stag”), from Proto-Celtic *damos, from Proto-Indo-European *dm̥h₂-ó- (“bull”) (compare Albanian dem (“bullock”), Ancient Greek δάμαλος (dámalos, “calf”)), from *demh₂- (“to tame”) (compare Old Irish daimid (“to allow, give in”), Latin domō, English tame).

Pronunciation

Noun

damh m (genitive singular daimh, nominative plural daimh)

  1. ox
  2. stag
  3. (figuratively) strong man, champion; corpulent person
Declension
Declension of damh

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative damh daimh
Vocative a dhaimh a dhamha
Genitive daimh damh
Dative damh daimh

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an damh na daimh
Genitive an daimh na ndamh
Dative leis an damh

don damh

leis na daimh

Synonyms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish dom (“house, home”).

Noun

damh f (genitive singular daimhe, nominative plural damha)

  1. (literary) house, home
Declension
Declension of damh

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative damh damha
Vocative a dhamh a dhamha
Genitive daimhe damh
Dative damh damha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an damh na damha
Genitive na daimhe na ndamh
Dative leis an damh

don damh

leis na damha

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Pronoun

damh (emphatic damhsa)

  1. Alternative form of dom (“for/to me”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
damh dhamh ndamh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 77

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish dam (“ox, stag”), from Proto-Celtic *damos, from Proto-Indo-European *dm̥h₂-ó- (“bull”) (compare Albanian dem (“bullock”), Ancient Greek δάμαλος (dámalos, “calf”)), from *demh₂- (“to tame”) (compare Old Irish daimid (“to allow, give in”), Latin domō, English tame).

Pronunciation

Noun

damh m (genitive singular daimh, plural daimh or damhan)

  1. ox, bullock
  2. stag (usually of red deer)

Derived terms

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
damh dhamh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “damh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 dam”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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