dam-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dam"

Garo

Etymology

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Classifier

dam-

1. classifier for places: villages, fields, houses, windows, doors

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [daṽ]

Prefix

dam- (class B & C infixed pronoun, triggers lenition)

1. Alternative form of dom- (“me”)

See also

Old Irish affixed pronouns

See Appendix:Old Irish affixed pronouns for details on how these forms are used.
Note that the so-called “infixed” pronouns are technically prefixes, but they are never the first prefix in a verbal complex.

Person	Infixed			Suffixed
	Class A	Class B	Class C
1 sing.	m-L	dom-L, dam-L		-um
2 sing.	t-L	dot-L, dat-L, dut-L, dit-L		-ut
3 sing. m.	a-N, e-N	d-N	id-N, did-N, d-N	-i, -it
3 sing. f.	s-(N)	da-		-us
3 sing. n.	a-L, e-L	d-L	id-L, did-L, d-L	-i, -it
1 pl.	n-	don-, dun-, dan-		-unn
2 pl.	b-	dob-, dub-, dab-		-uib
3 pl.	s-(N)	da-		-us
L means this form triggers lenition. N means this form triggers nasalization (eclipsis) (N) means this form triggers nasalization in some texts but not in others.

Welsh

Alternative forms

• dym-

Etymology

Proto-Celtic *do-ambi-, from *do- +‎ *ambi-, equivalent to dy- (“to, together”) +‎ am- (“around”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dam/

Prefix

dam-

1. around, circum-

   ‎dam- + ‎cylchu (“to circle, to surround”) → ‎damgylchu (“to encompass, to surround”)

   ‎dam- + ‎amcanu (“to estimate”) → ‎damcanu (“to conjecture, to speculate”)

Derived terms

Welsh terms prefixed with dam-

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
dam-	ddam-	nam-	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.