"feamainn" meaning in Scottish Gaelic

See feamainn in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈfɛ̃miɲ/, [ˈfæ̃miɲ] (note: Lewis, Harris) Forms: feamann [genitive, singular], feamnach [genitive, singular], feamad [genitive, singular]
Etymology: From Middle Irish femain, femmain (“(edible) seaweed”), from Proto-Celtic *wimmonā, related to Old Breton goumon (late Proto-Brythonic *gwɨmon (“seaweed”)), whence French goémon. Etymology templates: {{der|gd|mga|femain}} Middle Irish femain, {{der|gd|cel-pro|*wimmonā}} Proto-Celtic *wimmonā, {{cog|obt|goumon}} Old Breton goumon, {{cog|cel-bry-pro|*gwɨmon|t=seaweed}} Proto-Brythonic *gwɨmon (“seaweed”), {{cog|fr|goémon}} French goémon Head templates: {{head|gd|noun|||||||genitive singular|feamann|or|feamnach|or|feamad|no plural|||-||||||{{{pl4}}}|||cat2=|f10accel-form=genpl|f1accel-form=dat|s|f2accel-form=dat|s|f3accel-form=dat|s|f4accel-form=gen|s|f5accel-form=gen|s|f6accel-form=gen|s|f7accel-form=p|f8accel-form=p|f9accel-form=p|g=f|g2=|g3=|head=}} feamainn f (genitive singular feamann or feamnach or feamad, no plural), {{gd-noun|g=f|gen=feamann|gen2=feamnach|gen3=feamad|pl=-}} feamainn f (genitive singular feamann or feamnach or feamad, no plural)
  1. seaweed Tags: feminine, no-plural Synonyms: todhar [dialectal]
    Sense id: en-feamainn-gd-noun-5ybFhU34
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Seafood Disambiguation of Seafood: 0 0

Verb

IPA: /ˈfɛ̃miɲ/, [ˈfæ̃miɲ] (note: Lewis, Harris) Forms: dh'fheamainn [past], feamainnidh [future], feamnadh [noun-from-verb], feamainnte [participle, past], no-table-tags [table-tags], feamainn [error-unrecognized-form], fheamainn [error-unrecognized-form]
Etymology: From Middle Irish femain, femmain (“(edible) seaweed”), from Proto-Celtic *wimmonā, related to Old Breton goumon (late Proto-Brythonic *gwɨmon (“seaweed”)), whence French goémon. Etymology templates: {{der|gd|mga|femain}} Middle Irish femain, {{der|gd|cel-pro|*wimmonā}} Proto-Celtic *wimmonā, {{cog|obt|goumon}} Old Breton goumon, {{cog|cel-bry-pro|*gwɨmon|t=seaweed}} Proto-Brythonic *gwɨmon (“seaweed”), {{cog|fr|goémon}} French goémon Head templates: {{head|gd|verb|past|dh'fheamainn|||future|feamainnidh|||verbal noun|feamnadh|||||past participle|feamainnte|head=}} feamainn (past dh'fheamainn, future feamainnidh, verbal noun feamnadh, past participle feamainnte), {{gd-verb|fut=feamainnidh|past=dh'fheamainn|pp=feamainnte|vn=feamnadh}} feamainn (past dh'fheamainn, future feamainnidh, verbal noun feamnadh, past participle feamainnte)
  1. (agriculture) manure, fertilise (with seaweed)
    Sense id: en-feamainn-gd-verb-UH67jAai Categories (other): Agriculture, Pages with 2 entries, Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 9 36 3 53 Disambiguation of Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header: 9 91 Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Seafood Disambiguation of Seafood: 0 0

Inflected forms

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      "tags": [
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        "17": "",
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        "20": "",
        "21": "",
        "22": "",
        "23": "",
        "24": "{{{pl4}}}",
        "25": "",
        "26": "",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
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        "f8accel-form": "p",
        "f9accel-form": "p",
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          "word": "todhar"
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      "ipa": "[ˈfæ̃miɲ]",
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      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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    },
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      "form": "feamnadh",
      "tags": [
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      "form": "feamainnte",
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      "source": "mutation",
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      "source": "mutation",
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        "error-unrecognized-form"
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        "agriculture",
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfæ̃miɲ]",
      "note": "Lewis, Harris"
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        "genitive",
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        "genitive",
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      "form": "feamad",
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        "genitive",
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        "22": "",
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          "word": "todhar"
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      "ipa": "[ˈfæ̃miɲ]",
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        "future"
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      "tags": [
        "noun-from-verb"
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        "(agriculture) manure, fertilise (with seaweed)"
      ],
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        "agriculture",
        "business",
        "lifestyle"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfæ̃miɲ]",
      "note": "Lewis, Harris"
    }
  ],
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}

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  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'lenition'",
  "path": [
    "feamainn"
  ],
  "section": "Scottish Gaelic",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "feamainn",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Scottish Gaelic dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-02 using wiktextract (0c45963 and 3c020d2). 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.