adhmad

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish admat (“invention, device, material, timber”),[2] from Proto-Celtic *ad-mentos, from *manyetor (“think, remember”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Cognate with Manx ymmyd. O’Rahilly suggests the etymology *ad-mazdo- and cognate maide (“wood, stick”).[3]

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈəimˠəd̪ˠ/[4], /ˈaimˠəd̪ˠ/[5]
  • (Galway) IPA(key): /ˈɑːmˠəd̪ˠ/[6][7] (corresponding to the form ádhmad)
  • (Mayo, Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈaːmˠəd̪ˠ/[8][9] (corresponding to the form ádhmad)

Noun

adhmad m (genitive singular adhmaid, nominative plural adhmaid or adhmadaí)

  1. wood (substance); timber
  2. material, substance
  3. (golf) wood
  4. (literary) device, contrivance; composition, poem

Declension

Declension of adhmad (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative adhmad adhmaid
vocative a adhmaid a adhmada
genitive adhmaid adhmad
dative adhmad adhmaid
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-adhmad na hadhmaid
genitive an adhmaid na n-adhmad
dative leis an adhmad
don adhmad 		leis na hadhmaid
  • Variant plural: adhmadaí

Derived terms

  • adhmad bog (“softwood”)
  • adhmad burra (“burr wood”)
  • adhmad lom (“undressed timber”)
  • adhmad raice (“driftwood”)
  • adhmad silín (“cherrywood”)
  • adhmad tine (“firewood”)
  • adhmadach (“woody”)
  • adhmadóir (“woodworker”)
  • adhmadóireacht (“woodworking”)
  • adhmadúil (“ligneous”)
  • bogadhmad (“softwood”)
  • burra-adhmad (“burr wood”)
  • ceardaíocht adhmaid
  • croí-adhmad (“heartwood”)
  • crua-adhmad (“hardwood”)
  • gar-adhmaid (“gunwale”)
  • sú-adhmad (“sapwood”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of adhmad
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
adhmad n-adhmad hadhmad t-adhmad

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

References

References
  1. ^ “adhmad”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “admat”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ O’Rahilly, T. F. (1946) “Varia II: The prefix ad-”, in Celtica, volume 1, page 338
  4. ^ Ó Cuív, Brian (1968) The Irish of West Muskerry, Co. Cork: A Phonetic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, section 95, page 27; reprinted 1988
  5. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 17, page 11
  6. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 16
  7. ^ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1977) Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht [The Irish of Cois Fharraige: Accidence] (in Irish), 2nd edition, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath [Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies], page 296
  8. ^ Mhac an Fhailigh, Éamonn (1968) The Irish of Erris, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, § 359 (i), page 148
  9. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 17, page 9

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