cnàmh

See also: cnámh

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰɾãːv/

Etymology 1

See cnàimh.

Noun

cnàmh m (genitive singular cnàimh, plural cnàmhan)

1. Alternative form of cnàimh (“bone”)

Derived terms

• cnàmh-droma

Etymology 2

From Old Irish cnám, from Proto-Celtic *knāyeti (“to bite”), from Proto-Indo-European *kneh₂-. Compare Old Irish con·cnaí (“chews, masticates, gnaws”), verbal noun cnaïd.

Noun

cnàmh m (genitive singular cnàimh)

1. verbal noun of cnàmh

   Synonym: cnàmhadh

2. (act of) digesting
3. digestion
4. decay
5. erosion
6. (with definite article, an) blight

Verb

cnàmh (past chnàmh, future cnàmhaidh, verbal noun cnàmh, cnàmhadh, past participle cnàmhte)

1. chew, gnaw, masticate
2. corrode (metal)
3. digest

Derived terms

• dì-chnàmhadh m (“indigestion”)

Mutation

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

References

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