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 (fifth declension)

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an namhaid	na naimhde
genitive	an namhad	na naimhde
dative	leis an namhaid don namhaid	leis na naimhde

^ “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