cnàmh

See also: cnámh

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʰɾãːv/

Etymology 1

See cnàimh.

Noun

cnàmh m (genitive singular cnàimh, plural cnàmhan)

  1. alternative form of cnàimh (“bone”)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish cnám, from Proto-Celtic *knāyeti (“to bite”), from Proto-Indo-European *kneh₂-.[1] Compare Old Irish con·cnaí (“chews, masticates, gnaws”), verbal noun cnaïd.

Noun

cnàmh m (genitive singular cnàimh)

  1. verbal noun of cnàmh
    Synonym: cnàmhadh
  2. (act of) digesting
  3. digestion
  4. decay
  5. erosion
  6. (with definite article, an) blight

Verb

cnàmh (past chnàmh, future cnàmhaidh, verbal noun cnàmh, cnàmhadh, past participle cnàmhte)

  1. chew, gnaw, masticate
  2. corrode (metal)
  3. digest
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “kna-yo”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 211

Mutation

Mutation of cnàmh
radical lenition
cnàmh chnàmh

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

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “cnàmh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cnám”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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