náma

Etymology

From Old Irish námae, from Proto-Celtic *nāmants, traditionally said to be from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”) + *h₂em- (“love”) (compare Latin amō), but as that verb root is not otherwise attested in Celtic, this may be a folk etymology.^[1]

Noun

náma m (genitive námat, plural námait)

1. enemy

References

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “náma(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈnaːma/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈnaːma/

Pronoun

náma

1. dative/instrumental of vě

Pronoun

náma

1. nominative plural of ín

References

• Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, 2014-2020. Umatilla Language Online Dictionary