maíomh

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish moídem.[2] By surface analysis, maígh +‎ -amh.

Pronunciation

Noun

maíomh m (genitive singular as substantive maímh, genitive as verbal noun maíte)

  1. boast
  2. claim, assertion
  3. verbal noun of maígh

Declension

As substantive:

Declension of maíomh (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative maíomh
vocative a mhaímh
genitive maímh
dative maíomh
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an maíomh
genitive an mhaímh
dative leis an maíomh
don mhaíomh

As verbal noun:

Declension of maíomh (irregular, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative maíomh
vocative a mhaíomh
genitive maíte
dative maíomh
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an maíomh
genitive an mhaíte
dative leis an maíomh
don mhaíomh

Mutation

Mutated forms of maíomh
radical lenition eclipsis
maíomh mhaíomh not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “maíomh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “moídem”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 326, page 113

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