nimh

From Old Irish neim (“poison, venom; bane, malefic power; virulence, keenness, penetrating force; sharpness, bitterness, causticity”).

• IPA^(key): /nʲɪvʲ/

nimh f (genitive singular nimhe)

1. poison
2. venom, virulence, bitterness, animosity

• "nimh" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “neim” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• "nimh" in the National Terminology Database for Irish, provided by Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU and Foras na Gaeilge.

• neimh m

From Old Irish neim (“poison, venom; bane, malefic power; virulence, keenness, penetrating force; sharpness, bitterness, causticity”).

nimh m (genitive singular nimhe or neimhe, plural nimhean)

1. poison, venom
2. bitterness, malice, animosity

• puinnsean

• àrd-fhear-nimh (“asp”)
• béist-nimh f (“scorpion”)
• eòlas-nimh m (“toxicology”)
• nimh-fhògrach (“alexipharmic, antidote”, adj)
• seillean-nimh m (“hornet”)

• 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
• “neim” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.