ainmide
adj
Meaning
- animate (having the breath of life)
- animal
- living creature, animal, beast
Etymology / origin
ainim(m) (“soul, life”) + -ide (adjectival suffix); calque of Latin animālis.
- animālis(la)→
- ainmide (Middle Irish)
- Relations: clq
Related words
Descendant words
- ainmhí(Irish) (inh)
- ainmhidh(Scottish Gaelic) (inh)
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