"damhna" meaning in Irish

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Noun

Etymology: From Old Irish damnae (“stuff or material out of which something is made; matter; cause, reason, motive”), from Proto-Celtic *damniyom (“material, substance”), from Proto-Indo-European *dm̥-n-eyós, from *dem- (“to build (up)”). Etymology templates: {{inh|ga|sga|damnae|t=stuff or material out of which something is made; matter; cause, reason, motive}} Old Irish damnae (“stuff or material out of which something is made; matter; cause, reason, motive”), {{inh|ga|cel-pro|*damniyom|t=material, substance}} Proto-Celtic *damniyom (“material, substance”), {{inh|ga|ine-pro||*dm̥-n-eyós}} Proto-Indo-European *dm̥-n-eyós Head templates: {{head|ga|noun|genitive singular|damhna|||||||nominative plural|damhnaí|||||cat2=|f1request=1|f4request=1|g=m|g2=|g3=|head=|var=}} damhna m (genitive singular damhna, nominative plural damhnaí), {{ga-noun|m|~|~í}} damhna m (genitive singular damhna, nominative plural damhnaí) Inflection templates: {{ga-mut}} Forms: damhna [genitive, singular], damhnaí [nominative, plural], declension-4 [table-tags], no-table-tags [table-tags], damhna [indefinite, nominative, singular], damhnaí [indefinite, nominative, plural], a dhamhna [indefinite, singular, vocative], a dhamhnaí [indefinite, plural, vocative], damhna [genitive, indefinite, singular], damhnaí [genitive, indefinite, plural], damhna [dative, indefinite, singular], damhnaí [dative, indefinite, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], an damhna [definite, nominative, singular], na damhnaí [definite, nominative, plural], an damhna [definite, genitive, singular], na ndamhnaí [definite, genitive, plural], leis an damhna [dative, definite, singular], don damhna [dative, definite, singular], leis na damhnaí [dative, definite, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], damhna [error-unrecognized-form], dhamhna [lenition], ndamhna [eclipsis]
  1. matter
    substance, material
    Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-damhna-ga-noun-iw3FxLiM Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 33 33 33 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 33 33 33
  2. matter
    subject (for), cause (of)
    Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-damhna-ga-noun-Aqappo5b Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 33 33 33 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 33 33 33
  3. (literary, of person) ’makings’, eligible person Tags: literary, masculine
    Sense id: en-damhna-ga-noun-jEitWiv2 Categories (other): Irish entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Irish entries with incorrect language header: 16 16 68 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 33 33 33 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 33 33 33
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: damhna dorcha (english: dark matter), damhnaigh (english: materialise) [verb], damhnúil (english: material) [adjective], frithdhamhna (english: antimatter)
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "dark matter",
      "translation": "dark matter",
      "word": "damhna dorcha"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "materialise",
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      ],
      "translation": "materialise",
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    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "material",
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        "adjective"
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      "translation": "material",
      "word": "damhnúil"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "antimatter",
      "translation": "antimatter",
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    }
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        "singular"
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      "form": "an damhna",
      "source": "declension",
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        "singular"
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      "form": "na damhnaí",
      "source": "declension",
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    },
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      "form": "na ndamhnaí",
      "source": "declension",
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        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "leis an damhna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don damhna",
      "source": "declension",
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        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      ]
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        "’makings’, eligible person"
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      ],
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    "Irish fourth-declension nouns",
    "Irish lemmas",
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    "Irish nouns",
    "Irish terms derived from Old Irish",
    "Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic",
    "Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Irish terms inherited from Old Irish",
    "Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic",
    "Irish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
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      "english": "dark matter",
      "translation": "dark matter",
      "word": "damhna dorcha"
    },
    {
      "english": "materialise",
      "tags": [
        "verb"
      ],
      "translation": "materialise",
      "word": "damhnaigh"
    },
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      "english": "material",
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
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      "translation": "material",
      "word": "damhnúil"
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      "translation": "antimatter",
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        "plural"
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        "definite",
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        "plural"
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  ],
  "word": "damhna"
}

Download raw JSONL data for damhna meaning in Irish (5.3kB)

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  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "damhna",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 25"
}

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  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "damhna",
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}

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  "path": [
    "damhna"
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  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "damhna",
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}

{
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  "msg": "TABLE not properly closed",
  "path": [
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  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "damhna",
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}

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  "msg": "HTML tag <div> not properly closed",
  "path": [
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  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "damhna",
  "trace": "started on line 1, detected on line 21"
}

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  "path": [
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  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "damhna",
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}

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  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </div>",
  "path": [
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}

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  "called_from": "inflection/865",
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}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Irish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.