caitheamh

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish caithem. By surface analysis, caith +‎ -amh

Pronunciation

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Noun

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caitheamh m (genitive singular as substantive caithimh, genitive as verbal noun caite)

  1. verbal noun of caith
  2. consumption
  3. spending
  4. wear, wearing
  5. passing
  6. throw, cast, pitch
  7. shooting, firing (a weapon)
  8. fire (in-flight bullets)
  9. compulsion

Declension

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(as substantive):

(as verbal noun):

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
caitheamh chaitheamh gcaitheamh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 50
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 65

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish caithem. By surface analysis, caith +‎ -amh

Pronunciation

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Noun

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caitheamh f (genitive singular caitheimh, plural caitheamhan)

  1. verbal noun of caith
  2. consumption
  3. (with article, a' chaitheamh) asthma, tuberculosis[1]

Derived terms

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Mutation

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

References

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Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “caitheamh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “caithem”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language