deimheas

Irish

From Old Irish demess, from Proto-Celtic *dwimessos, from *dwi- (“double”) + *meteti (“to cut, reap”).^[1]^[2] Cognate with Scottish Gaelic deamhas, Manx jouish.

deimheas m (genitive singular deimhis, nominative plural deimhis)

Declension of deimheas (first declension)

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an deimheas	na deimhis
genitive	an deimhis	na ndeimheas
dative	leis an deimheas don deimheas	leis na deimhis

Mutated forms of *deimheas*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
deimheas	dheimheas	ndeimheas

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

^ Pedersen, Holger (1909) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume I, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 99.1, pages 162–163
^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 383, page 34
^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 82
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 88, page 35

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “deimes”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “deiṁeas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 234
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “deimheas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN