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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish prímda (“foremost, principal, pre-eminent”).
Adjective
príomha
- primary, principal, prime
- (mathematics) prime
Synonyms
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| príomha
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phríomha
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bpríomha
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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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References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “príomha”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “prímda(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language