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ainmhidh

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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

Noun

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ainmhidh m (genitive singular ainmhidhe, plural ainmhidhean)

  1. animal, beast
    Synonym: beathach
  2. (in the plural) fauna
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Mutation

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Mutation of ainmhidh
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ainmhidh n-ainmhidh h-ainmhidh t-ainmhidh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “ainmhidh”, 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), “1 ainmide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language