snámh

See also: snamh and snàmh

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish snám,[3] verbal noun of snaïd (swims).[4]

Noun

snámh m (genitive singular snámha)

  1. verbal noun of snámh
  2. swimming, a swim
  3. floating
  4. (nautical) draft (depth of water needed to float a particular ship)
Declension
Declension of snámh (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative snámh
vocative a shnámh
genitive snámha
dative snámh
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an snámh
genitive an tsnámha
dative leis an snámh
don snámh
Derived terms
  • snámh brollaigh (breast-stroke)

Further reading

Etymology 2

Denominal verb of snámh.

Alternative forms

Verb

snámh (present analytic snámhann, future analytic snámhfaidh, verbal noun snámh, past participle snáfa) (ambitransitive)

  1. to swim
  2. (nautical) to float
  3. to crawl (of insects)
Conjugation

Further reading

Mutation

Mutated forms of snámh
radical lenition eclipsis
snámh shnámh
after an, tsnámh
not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 72, page 38
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 148, page 58
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “snám”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “snáïd”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language