damhna

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish damnae (“stuff or material out of which something is made; matter; cause, reason, motive”), from Proto-Celtic *damnyos (“material, substance”), from Proto-Indo-European *dm̥-n-yós, from *dem- (“to build (up)”).

Noun

damhna m (genitive singular damhna, nominative plural damhnaí)

  1. matter
    1. substance, material
    2. subject (for), cause (of)
  2. (literary, of person) ’makings’, eligible person

Declension
Declension of damhna

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative damhna damhnaí
Vocative a dhamhna a dhamhnaí
Genitive damhna damhnaí
Dative damhna damhnaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an damhna na damhnaí
Genitive an damhna na ndamhnaí
Dative leis an damhna

don damhna

 leis na damhnaí

Derived terms
  • damhna dorcha (“dark matter”)
  • damhnaigh (“materialise”, verb)
  • damhnúil (“material”, adjective)
  • frithdhamhna (“antimatter”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
damhna dhamhna ndamhna
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Further reading
  • Entries containing “damhna” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “damhna” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish damnae (“the stuff or material out of which something is wrought or created; heir; matter, cause, reason, motive”), from Proto-Celtic *damnyos (“material, substance”), from Proto-Indo-European *dóm-né-os, from *dem- (“to build (up)”).

Noun

damhna m

  1. cause, reason

Derived terms
  • rìgh-damhna (“king's heir”)

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
damhnadhamhna
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “damhna”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “damnae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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