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damhna.

matter

6 characters2 syllables approx.Gaeilge language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. matter substance, material

    masculine
  2. matter subject (for), cause (of)

    masculine
  3. ’makings’, eligible person

    literary · masculine
Where this word comes from

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)”).

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