gníomh

See also: gnìomh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish gním, from Proto-Celtic *gnīm-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (to produce, beget). Akin to déan. Compare Scottish Gaelic gnìomh.

Pronunciation

Noun

gníomh m (genitive singular gnímh or gníomha, nominative plural gníomhartha or gníomha or gníomhra)

  1. (literary)
    1. (act of) doing, performing; working, exercising
    2. work, function
  2. clamp’, built-up sods on stack of turf
  3. action
  4. act, deed
  5. (theater) act
  6. (of land measure) twelfth part of ploughland; grass of one cow
  7. (law) fact

Declension

Alternative declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gníomh ghníomh ngníomh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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