snàmh

From Old Irish snám, verbal noun of snáïd (“swims; floats, sails; creeps, crawls; flows”).

snàmh (past shnàmh, future snàmhaidh, verbal noun snàmh, past participle snàmhte)

1. swim (perform the act of swimming)
2. bathe
3. swim (be afloat)
4. float
5. soak, deluge

snàmh m (genitive singular snàimh)

1. verbal noun of snàmh
2. swimming, act of swimming or floating
3. soaking, deluging
4. slimy track of a snail

• snàmhadh

• eun-snàmh m (“aquatic bird”)
• snàmh luath (“swift in swimming, swift-swimming”, adjective)

• 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
• “snám” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “snáïd” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “snáimid, snámaid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.