aimhleas

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish aimles m (harm).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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aimhleas m (genitive singular aimhleasa or aimhlis)

  1. harm, detriment; evil

Declension

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Derived terms

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  • aimhleasach (harmful, detrimental; misguided, adjective)
  • aimhleasta (misguided; wild, unruly, adjective)

Mutation

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

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish aimles m (disadvantage, harm, mischief; evil report, false charge).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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aimhleas m (genitive singular aimhleis, no plural)

  1. harm, bane, ruin, mischief, misfortune

Mutation

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

References

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “aimhleas”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aimles”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language