namhaid

See also: nàmhaid and námhaid

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish náma, from Old Irish námae,[2] from Proto-Celtic *nāmants, traditionally said to be from Proto-Indo-European *né (“not”) + *h₂em- (“love”) (compare Latin amō), but as that verb root is not otherwise attested in Celtic, this may be a folk etymology.[3]

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /n̪ˠəudʲ/, [n̪ˠɑɯ̯dʲ][4]

Noun

namhaid m or f (genitive singular namhad, nominative plural naimhde)

  1. enemy

Declension

Declension of namhaid (fifth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative namhaid naimhde
vocative a namhaid a naimhde
genitive namhad naimhde
dative namhaid naimhde
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an namhaid na naimhde
genitive an namhad na naimhde
dative leis an namhaid
don namhaid 		leis na naimhde
  • Alternative genitive plural: namhad

Derived terms

  • naimhdeach
  • is namhaid an cheird gan a foghlaim (“the trade not learned is an enemy”) (proverb)

References

  1. ^ “namhaid”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “náma(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 283
  4. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 27, page 16

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