náma
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Icelandic
Pronunciation
Noun
náma f (genitive singular námu, nominative plural námur)
Declension
declension of náma
Synonyms
Derived terms
- jarðvarmanáma (“geothermal reservoir”)
- kolanáma (“coal mine”)
- varmanáma (“heat reservoir”)
- yfirborðsnáma (“strip mine”)
Further reading
- “náma” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)
Middle Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish námae, from Proto-Celtic *nāmants, traditionally said to be from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”) + *h₂em- (“love”) (compare Latin amō), but as that verb root is not otherwise attested in Celtic, this may be a folk etymology.
Noun
náma m (genitive námat, plural námait)
Descendants
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 283
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “náma(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Umatilla
Pronoun
náma
- nominative plural of ín
References
- Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, 2014-2020. Umatilla Language Online Dictionary