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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Middle Irish ráma, rám, from Old Irish rámae, from Proto-Celtic *rāmiyos (“oar”), (compare Welsh rhaw, Cornish rêv, Middle Breton reuf (“shovel”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rˠaːv/
- Hyphenation: ràmh
Noun
ràmh m (genitive singular ràimh, plural ràimh or ràmhan)
- oar
Declension
Declension of ràmh (type I masculine noun)
✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century
Declension of ràmh (type I masculine noun)
✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century
Derived terms
Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “ràmh”, 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 ráma, rám”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language