feidhm

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish feidm (“effort”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *wedesman, from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to lead”). Compare Scottish Gaelic feum.

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /fʲəimʲ/, [fʲëimʲ]
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /fʲəimʲ/, [fʲeimʲ], [fʲɛːmʲ][2]

Noun

feidhm f (genitive singular feidhme, nominative plural feidhmeanna)

  1. use, application
  2. service
  3. function
  4. business, affair
  5. effect, effectiveness
  6. need, necessity
    Níl feidhm é sin a dhéanamh.
    There’s no need to do that.

Declension

Declension of feidhm (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative feidhm feidhmeanna
vocative a fheidhm a fheidhmeanna
genitive feidhme feidhmeanna
dative feidhm feidhmeanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an fheidhm na feidhmeanna
genitive na feidhme na bhfeidhmeanna
dative leis an bhfeidhm
don fheidhm 		leis na feidhmeanna

Synonyms

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of feidhm
radical lenition eclipsis
feidhm fheidhm bhfeidhm

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “feidm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 86, page 35

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