dèanamh

See also: déanamh

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms
  • dèanadh

Etymology

From Old Irish dénum (“act of doing; performing, executing, committing, perpetrating; act of making, creating; making out, proving; going, making towards”).

Noun

dèanamh m (genitive singular dèanaimh)

  1. verbal noun of dèan
  2. doing, acting, performing
  3. physique, figure, build, constitution
  4. form, make, model
  5. structure, texture, fabric

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalLenition
dèanamhdhèanamh
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
  • “dénum” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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