príomha
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish prímda (“foremost, principal, pre-eminent”).
Adjective
[edit]príomha
- primary, principal, prime
- (mathematics) prime
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- fachtóir príomha m (“prime factor”)
- uimhir phríomha f (“prime number”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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príomha | phríomha | bpríomha |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “príomha”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “prímda(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language