namhaid

See also: nàmhaid and námhaid

Irish

From Middle Irish náma, from Old Irish námae,^[2] from Proto-Celtic *nāmants, traditionally said to be from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”) + *h₂em- (“love”) (compare Latin amō), but as that verb root is not otherwise attested in Celtic, this may be a folk etymology.^[3]

namhaid m or f (genitive singular namhad, nominative plural naimhde)

Declension of namhaid

Bare forms

^ “namhaid”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “náma(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 283
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 27, page 16

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “namhaid”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “náṁaid”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 507
de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “namhaid”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
“namhaid”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024