Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Irish feidm (effort), from Proto-Celtic *wedesman, from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (to lead). Compare Scottish Gaelic feum.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

feidhm f (genitive singular feidhme, nominative plural feidhmeanna)

  1. use, application
  2. service
  3. function
  4. business, affair
  5. effect, effectiveness
  6. need, necessity
    Níl feidhm é sin a dhéanamh.
    There’s no need to do that.

Declension edit

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Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
feidhm fheidhm bhfeidhm
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 35

Further reading edit