cnàimh

See also: cnáimh

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• cnàmh

Etymology

From Old Irish cnáim, from Proto-Celtic *knāmis, from Proto-Indo-European *kónh₂m (“leg”). Doublet of hama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰɾɛ̃ːv/

Noun

cnàimh m (genitive singular cnàmha, plural cnàmhan or cnàimhean)

1. bone

Derived terms

• Bliadhna a' Chnàmha (“Year of the Potato Blight in 1846”)
• cnàimh an droma (“backbone, spine, vertebra”)
• cnàimh an uga (“collarbone, clavicle”)
• cnàimh-slinnein (“shoulder blade”)
• cnàimhneach (“skeleton”)

 

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
cnàimh	chnàimh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “cnàimh”, 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), “cnáim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language