adhmad

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish admat (“invention, device, material, timber”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *ad-mentos, from *manyetor (“think, remember”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Cognate with Manx aamaid. O’Rahilly suggests the etymology *ad-mazdo- and cognate maide (“wood, stick”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

adhmad m (genitive singular adhmaid, nominative plural adhmaid or adhmadaí)

  1. wood (substance); timber
  2. material, substance
  3. (golf) wood
  4. (literary) device, contrivance; composition, poem

Declension
Declension of adhmad

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative adhmad adhmaid
Vocative a adhmaid a adhmada
Genitive adhmaid adhmad
Dative adhmad adhmaid

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-adhmad na hadhmaid
Genitive an adhmaid na n-adhmad
Dative leis an adhmad

don adhmad

 leis na hadhmaid
  • Variant plural: adhmadaí

Derived terms
  • adhmad bog (“softwood”)
  • adhmad burra (“burr wood”)
  • adhmad lom (“undressed timber”)
  • adhmad raice (“driftwood”)
  • adhmad silín (“cherrywood”)
  • adhmad tine (“firewood”)
  • adhmadach (“woody”)
  • adhmadóir (“woodworker”)
  • adhmadóireacht (“woodworking”)
  • adhmadúil (“ligneous”)
  • bogadhmad (“softwood”)
  • burra-adhmad (“burr wood”)
  • ceardaíocht adhmaid
  • croí-adhmad (“heartwood”)
  • crua-adhmad (“hardwood”)
  • gar-adhmaid (“gunwale”)
  • sú-adhmad (“sapwood”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
adhmad n-adhmad hadhmad t-adhmad
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “admat”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. O’Rahilly, T. F. (1946) “Varia II: The prefix ad-”, in Celtica, volume 1, page 338
  3. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 17, page 11
  4. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 17, page 9

Further reading
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “adhmad”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “aḋmad”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 6
  • Entries containing “adhmad” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “adhmad” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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