caoimhe
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See also: Caoimhe
Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Irish caíme (“beauty, loveliness; charity, kindliness”), from cóem (compare modern caomh).
Noun
[edit]caoimhe f (genitive singular caoimhe)
Declension
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Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
[edit]caoimhe
- inflection of caomh (“dear, gentle; mild, pleasant; lovely, smooth”):
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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caoimhe | chaoimhe | gcaoimhe |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “caoimhe”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “caíme”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “caoimhe”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “caoimhe”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]caoimhe
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition |
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caoimhe | chaoimhe |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]Categories:
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱey-
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish feminine nouns
- Irish fourth-declension nouns
- Irish non-lemma forms
- Irish adjective forms
- Irish comparative adjectives
- Scottish Gaelic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Scottish Gaelic non-lemma forms
- Scottish Gaelic adjective forms
- Scottish Gaelic comparative adjectives