amh

See also: -amh and ámh

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Amharic.

Symbol

amh

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Amharic.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Amharic terms

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish om (“raw, uncooked”) (compare Manx aw), from Proto-Celtic *omos (compare Welsh of), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₃mós. Cognates include Ancient Greek ὠμός (ōmós), Sanskrit आम (āmá) and Old Armenian հում (hum, “raw”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Galway) IPA^(key): /ˈavˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈauh/, /ˈãuh/

Adjective

amh (genitive singular masculine amh, genitive singular feminine aimhe, plural amha, comparative aimhe)

1. raw, uncooked

Declension

Declension of amh

Positive	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	strong noun	weak noun
nominative	amh	amh	amha
vocative	amh		amha
genitive		aimhe	amha	amh
dative	amh	amh	amha
Comparative	níos aimhe
Superlative	is aimhe

Derived terms

• amhábhar
• amhola

Related terms

• aimhe (“rawness, crudeness”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of amh

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
amh	n-amh	hamh	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “amh”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “amh”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “amh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “om”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 65

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish om (“raw, uncooked”) (compare Manx aw), from Proto-Celtic *omos (compare Welsh of), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃emós, *h₂eh₃mós. Cognates include Ancient Greek ὠμός (ōmós), Sanskrit आम (āmá) and Old Armenian հում (hum, “raw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaf/

Adjective

amh (comparative aimhe)

1. raw, uncooked

Mutation

Mutation of amh

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
amh	n-amh	h-amh	t-amh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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