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sámhas

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish sámas.[2] By surface analysis, sámh +‎ -as. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic samhas.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sámhas m (genitive singular sámhais)

  1. pleasure (especially bodily or sensual pleasure, including sexual enjoyment), delight

Declension

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Declension of sámhas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative sámhas
vocative a sámhais
genitive sámhais
dative sámhas
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an sámhas
genitive an sámhais
dative leis an sámhas
don sámhas

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of sámhas
radical lenition eclipsis
sámhas shámhas
after an, tsámhas 		not applicable

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

References

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  1. ^ “sámhas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sámas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 294, page 104

Further reading

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