muime

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms
  • buime

Etymology

From Old Irish muimme (“foster-mother, wet-nurse, instructress, patroness”).

Noun

muime f (genitive singular muime, plural muimeachan)

  1. nurse
  2. stepmother; foster-mother
  3. (Christianity) godmother
  4. midwife

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

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • muime-chìche f (“wet-nurse”)
  • muime-altram f (“dry-nurse”)

References
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “muim(m)e” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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