ainmhidh

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish ainmide (“living creature, animal, beast”, literally “having the breath of life, animated”), from Old Irish ainim(m) f (“soul, life”).

Noun

ainmhidh m (genitive singular ainmhidhe, plural ainmhidhean)

1. animal, beast

   Synonym: beathach

2. (in the plural) fauna

Related terms

• ainmh-

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ainmhidh	n-ainmhidh	h-ainmhidh	t-ainmhidh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “ainmhidh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 ainmide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language