àireamh

See also: aireamh and áireamh

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish áirem (compare Manx earroo, Irish áireamh), verbal noun of ad·rími (“counts, numbers, computes; records, recounts, mentions; takes into account; counts as, regards as; considers to be”).

Noun

àireamh f (genitive singular àireimh, plural àireamhan)

verbal noun of àireamh
number, quantity
numbering, numeration, account

Derived terms

àir. (abbreviation)
àireamhach (“numerical”, adjective)
àireamhair (“calculator”)
àireamh-tomhais (“mensuration, mathematics”)
àm-àireamh (“chronology”)
comh-àireamh (“numbering together; poll”)
iol-àireamh (“annumeration”)
prìomh-àireamh (“prime number”)

Verb

àireamh (past dh'àireamh, verbal noun àireamh)

number, count, compute
reckon, think

Derived terms

do-àireamh (“difficult to count; numberless, innumerable”, adjective)
iol-àireamh (“annumerate”, verb)
so-àireamh (“numerable, computable, easily numbered”, adjective)

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
àireamh	n-àireamh	h-àireamh	t-àireamh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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
C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “áirem”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN

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