gníomh

Irish (Donegal)

/ɟnʲiːəvˠ/, /ɟɾʲiːəvˠ/, /ɟɾʲiːəw/

noun
Definitions
  • (literary)
  • ‘clamp’, built-up sods on stack of turf
  • action
  • act, deed
  • (theatre) act
  • of land measure twelfth part of ploughland; grass of one cow
  • (law) fact

Etymology

Inherited from Old Irish gním inherited from Proto-Celtic *gnīm- inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (produce, beget, give birth, be born, procreate, generate, beget give birth to, bear), *ǵenh₁- (produce, beget, give birth, be born, procreate, generate, beget give birth to, bear).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*ǵenh₁-

Gloss

produce, beget, give birth, be born, procreate, generate, beget give birth to, bear

Concept
Semantic Field

Modern world

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

産

Emoji

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