snàmh

From Old Irish snám, verbal noun of snáïd (“swims; floats, sails; creeps, crawls; flows”).

• IPA^(key): /sn̪ˠãːv/

snàmh (past shnàmh, future snàmhaidh, verbal noun snàmh, past participle snàmhte)

1. swim (perform the act of swimming)
2. bathe
3. swim (be afloat)
4. float
5. soak, deluge

• snàmhair (“swimmer”)

• snàmhaiche (“swimmer”)

snàmh m (genitive singular snàimh)

1. verbal noun of snàmh
2. swimming, act of swimming or floating
3. soaking, deluging
4. slimy track of a snail

• snàmhadh

• eun-snàmh m (“aquatic bird”)
• snàmh luath (“swift in swimming, swift-swimming”, adjective)

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “snàmh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “snám”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “snáïd”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “snáimid, snámaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language