damhsa

Borrowed either from Middle English daunce or directly from Anglo-Norman daunce (“dance”), of Germanic origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ˠəusˠə/, (dated) /ˈd̪ˠə̃ũsˠə/

damhsa m (genitive singular damhsa, nominative plural damhsaí)

1. dance

• Alternative plural form: damhsaíocha (Cois Fharraige)

• rince

• damhsaigh
• damhsóir
• gúna damhsa (“ball gown”)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “damsa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “daṁsa”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 223
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “damhsa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

• damh-sa (superseded)

damhsa

1. emphatic form of damh: alternative form of domsa