iomaidh

Irish

Etymology 1

Possibly from Old Irish *imbuith, unattested verbal noun of imm·tá (“to be around, be so”).[1]

Noun

iomaidh f (genitive singular iomaidh)

  1. rivalry, competition
Declension
Declension of iomaidh (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative iomaidh
vocative a iomaidh
genitive iomaidh
dative iomaidh
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an iomaidh
genitive na hiomaidh
dative leis an iomaidh
don iomaidh

Further reading

Etymology 2

Adjective

iomaidh

  1. superseded spelling of iomaí (“many”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of iomaidh
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
iomaidh n-iomaidh hiomaidh 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. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “immad, immaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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