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Irish
Pronunciation
Pronoun
domh (emphatic domhsa)
- Ulster form of dom (“to/for me”)
References
Scottish Gaelic
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronoun
domh
- Alternative form of dhomh
Etymology 2
From Old Irish dom, dam (“house, home”), from Latin domus, from Proto-Indo-European *dṓm, from *dem- (“to build”).
Noun
domh m
- (obsolete) house
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “domh”, 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), “1 do”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dom, dam”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language